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• In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

  David Sanborn

  Attitude, Thinking, Looks

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Teaching, Stories, Made

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• Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Leadership, Sports, Teacher

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• Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Athletic

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• Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Education, Self Esteem, School

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• We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

  Johann Lamont

  Important, Implying, Disservice

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• When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Optimistic, People

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• I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Kids, Drawing

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• Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

  Ted Strickland

  Struggle, Worry, Pay

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• I was a good student in school.

  Kenan Thompson

  School, Good Students

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• As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

  Zoe Tapper

  Nibbling, Scent, Cheese

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Differences, Intellectual, Bars

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• Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.

  Heather Wilson

  Reading, Passion, Fighting

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• I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

  Ma Ying-jeou

  Thinking, Swim, Important

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

  Timothy Simons

  School, Differences, Facts

  "Jonah’s Arc". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2015.

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• As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Self, Discipline

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, May, Firsts

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• In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happy, New Year, Past

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• I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

  Wendy Liebman

  Smart, College, Thinking

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• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Acting, Done, Stuff

  "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

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• I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

  Cristin Milioti

  Very Good, Good Students

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• There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

  Donald Miller

  College, Reeds, Conservative

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• When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends.

  Thomas McDonell

  School, Fighting, Lots Of Friends

  "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.

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• As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

  Chuck Mangione

  School, Opportunity, Musical

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