Quotes about Student politics

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. Votes: 8

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. Votes: 6

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter. Votes: 5

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. Votes: 5

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry. Votes: 5

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. Votes: 5

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. Votes: 4

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. Votes: 3

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Votes: 3

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. Votes: 3

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left. Votes: 3

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject. Votes: 3

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together. Votes: 3

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Votes: 3

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. Votes: 2

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Votes: 2

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. Votes: 2

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. Votes: 2

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100. Votes: 2

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active. Votes: 1

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students. Votes: 1

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. Votes: -1