Students Quotes - Page 14

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  I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

  Kathy Acker

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Ratios

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• I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

  Ashley Benson

  School, Good Students

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

  Harry Browne

  School, Poor Education, Government

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• Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

  Philip Kaufman

  Creative, Inspire, Directors

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• Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, School, Garden

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Life, Teaching, Eye

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• Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

  August Kekule

  School, Science, Pupils

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• I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

  Luis Fortuno

  Party, College, Republican

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• Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Player, College, Sight

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• I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

  Lisi Harrison

  Athlete, Imagination, Focus

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• The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Jobs, College

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

  Lucy Hale

  School, Made, Hated

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• I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

  Mark Hamill

  School, Presidential, Made

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• When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  Tayari Jones

  Writing, Practice, Honor

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• I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

  Leslie Jamison

  Teacher, Lucky, Way

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  Ma Jian

  Persistence, Two, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

  Etgar Keret

  Talking, Giving, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2011.

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• We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Struggle

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• Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

  Alex Kapranos

  Years, Ties, Boho

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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