Students Today Quotes

• The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

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  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education   Humanity   Mastery  

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

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  Sonia Sotomayor

  Self   Support   Temptation  

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.149, Vintage

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• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

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  Dogen

  Short Life   Discipline   Dew  

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• College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

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  Elizabeth Warren

  Education   Hurt   College  

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• Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

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  Todd Park

  Technology   Opportunity   Skills  

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• I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

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  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking   Work Out   Today  

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational   Education   Teacher  

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

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  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational   Funny   Graduation  

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• Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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  Robertson Davies

  Beauty   Achievement   Today  

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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