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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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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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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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
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No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
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When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.
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Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.
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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.
