Erica Brown Quotes
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
Quotes to Explore
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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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.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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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.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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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.
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
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When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
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Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the salt of the earth.
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It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose the joke, which is that this is painful and hard.
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My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.
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I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
