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've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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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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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
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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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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.
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Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
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A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
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As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
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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.
