Norman Finkelstein Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
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Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
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As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
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It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
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When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
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We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.
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The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
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It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
