Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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PsychologÂy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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If you've been trained to listen to mistakes your whole life, you forget to listen to opportunities.
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I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.
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Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.
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Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
