Nat Hentoff Quotes
When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.Nat Hentoff
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
Hank Johnson -
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Adam Cohen -
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala Harris -
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
Haldan Keffer Hartline -
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
Floyd Abrams -
During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
Dan Webster
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White -
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
Danica McKellar -
When I taught, all my best students were women.
Zaha Hadid -
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
Jack Steinberger -
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Let students use technologies in the classroom.
Weili Dai
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb -
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Jack Horner -
Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
Randi Weingarten -
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Daniel Harvey Hill -
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
James A. Leach
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When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. When I spend time with students, they tell me that they've read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don't think they're living up to. And I tell them, “Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?
Bernie Glassman -
an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
Angelina Jolie -
The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I'd like to think that it's getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.
Martin Mull -
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
Dalai Lama -
Get to like your own body.
Sue Johanson -
When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.
Nat Hentoff