Wilbert J. McKeachie Quotes
The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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I have appointed you his friend, the sculptor Francis Chantry one of my executors. Will you promise to see me rolled up in it in Turner's painting 'Carthage'? ('Yes', responded his friend 'and I promise you also that, as soon as you are buried, I will see you taken up and unrolled.'
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Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.
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I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.
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The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
