“Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside,… — Peter Levitt Copy Share Image
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The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get… — Terri Hemmert Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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I started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
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The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
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I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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