Students Quotes
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Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.
Eva Moskowitz
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We're not saying students can't dress up in women's clothing. But there's a difference between the one who dresses (like a woman) for a play, a costume party or Late Skate, and the one who might dress in a provocative way, in a sexual way, in a lewd way.
Andrea Phillips
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The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.
Vusi Mahlasela
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Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
Erno Rubik
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.
William Galston
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Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.
Andy Rooney
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A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.
Edmund Ware Sinnott
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
Bill Lear
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Lawmakers reacted to the report by cutting off the funds to continue the testing of students so nobody would know if there was any improvement. This even turns free marketism on its head: Create an expensive government program with taxpayer money, and when the data suggests the program isn't working, hide the data and make sure consumers.
Barry W. Lynn
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I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.
Cate Marvin
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It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.
Alan M. Taylor
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What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
Vivienne Ming
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I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
Ernst Mach
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If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.
Sebastian Thrun
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When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
Tom Hayden
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Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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In this day and age, social media is a huge part of a business, which I actually love. It's a phenomenal platform to share your message, keep others and myself inspired and help keep your students connected to your events. The hardest part is the anonymous ability to say whatever you want.
Kathryn Budig
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
Alan Alda
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
Edmond H. Fischer
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The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
Chidananda Saraswati
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt
