Students Quotes

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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea… — Stanley Fish
Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever. — LouAnne Johnson
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim… — Elinor Ostrom
The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives. — Renata Adler
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of… — Dan Barker
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy. — Harry J. Anslinger
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit… — Michael Meade
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was… — Dani Shapiro
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility… — John Taylor Gatto
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up… — Eleanor Smeal
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California.… — Parker Stevenson
When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the… — Barney Frank
Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us. — Bill Cosby
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. — James S. Coleman
A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems. — Ip Chun
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. — Bruce Lee
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that… — Neal A. Maxwell
People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with a… — Chuck Norris
1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan — Mas Oyama
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching… — Sol Stern
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against… — Chris Carter
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves. — David Horowitz
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. — James S. Coleman

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