“As for these three students, they've obviously performed at a level beyond that expected by first semester students in order to help defend the university." He stuck the cigarette in his mouth and walked away. "Someone put them in harder classes.”

“In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first”

“And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!”

“No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.”

“In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.”

“One problem with test-based accountability, as currently defined and used, is that it removes all responsibility from students and their families for the students' academic performance. NCLB neglected to acknowledge that students share in the responsibility for their academic performance and that they are merely passive recipients of their teachers' influence.”