Sentence examples for merely students from inspiring English sources

Some are merely students.

The other N.C.A.A. mission is to create a protective shield around the colleges so they can continue to pretend that their ballplayers are merely students with special gifts; this is accomplished by cheerfully absorbing all criticism from fans, the news media and especially from colleges caught paying cash to tall boys.

Bilas, for example, scoffs at the notion that athletes in major college programs are merely students.

In education, the term may refer to an aide or student who merely monitors students during a written examination.

These are not the merely good students.

They merely teach students how to pass tests.

In this science, there are no master professors, merely lifelong students.

As he argues, core curriculums should aspire to do more than merely give students a taste of something.

They'll be safer in Westchester.' " But merely keeping students out of the city and off the roads is not enough, hotel managers said.

When I visited her at her house, an A-frame high in the hills above Golden, Colorado, she bristled at her peers' lack of interest in these distinctions — and at the standard public-school practice of placing exceptionally and profoundly gifted children in classes designed for merely advanced students.

However, depending merely on students' own evaluations of their own motivation levels might not have been reasonable.