Students Quotes
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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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To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.
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Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
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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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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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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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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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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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It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.
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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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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
