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Students Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
- Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
- Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
- I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."…
- Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
- The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our…
- Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students…
- The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about…
- As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
More Students Quotes
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2.… — Tyra Banks
- In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently… — Dave Barry
- If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. — Lynda Barry
- I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and… — Emmanuelle Beart
- Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach
- Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant