Nat Hentoff Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, School, Rights

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

• When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.

  Nat Hentoff

  Virginia, Secret, Taverns

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

• The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.

  Nat Hentoff

  Home, Needs, Determined

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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