Student Quotes
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When I ask my students to journal daily, I ask them not to judge and not to filter. Just put it down, I say—whatever you think of, however you want. A week goes by, and I send along a copy of Joan Didion’s short, classic essay “On Keeping a Notebook.” Write three paragraphs about the notebook pages that you have been keeping, I say. What is the value of the notes you have kept? What did they teach you about yourself? How honest are the pages, and what do you expect they will mean to you ten or twenty years from now? What shouts back at you about your voice and the sentences you leave behind?
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In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
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I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.
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I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
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What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
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I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.
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Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.
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Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.
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For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
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When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
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I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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They represent a good cross-section of the quality graduate students who are getting interested in commercializing their research.
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I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.
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I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American churches. They're interracially married. They're highly committed. Maybe there's a professor or two, or a student.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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The artist should always be the student.
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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
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I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
