Best My Students Quotations
116 My Students quotes by 105 unique authors
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
— Annie Dillard
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
— Robert Morgan
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My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers…
— Camille Paglia
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Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a…
— Rick Riordan
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition…
— Christina Romer
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the…
— Andres Segovia
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
— Will Self
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I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to…
— Bell Hooks
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that…
— Toni Morrison
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[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).
— Howard Nemerov
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I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for…
— Pam Houston
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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
— Parker J. Palmer
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I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I…
— Howard Zinn
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Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
— Kirsten Olson
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Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students):…
— Suzanne Farrell
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The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
— Frank Bruno
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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that…
— George Wald
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I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.
— Jim Goldberg
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The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case,…
— Huston Smith
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very…
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking…
— Eric Kandel
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And…
— Unknown Author
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