David McCord Quotes
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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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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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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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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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.
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People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
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But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.
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The Magnitsky Act is the most pro-Russian law ever passed by a foreign legislature.
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I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.
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I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers... and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
