Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.
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The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
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The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
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We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
