Students Quotes - Page 18

• After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Creativity, Originality, Study

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• I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

  John Katzman

  Taken, Sat, Preps

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• No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

  John Katzman

  Children, Eight, Years

  "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

  John Katzman

  School, Technology, Cost Benefit Analysis

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• When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

  John Katzman

  Teacher, Princeton University, Minimum Wage

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• I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

  Dileep Rao

  Movie, Cutting, Thinking

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• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  A. E. Hotchner

  School, Firsts, Sun

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, College, Order

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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Unions, Active

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• By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

  James Henry Breasted

  Art, Civilization, Egypt

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• Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

  George Nethercutt

  Country, Responsibility, Focus

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• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  School, Thinking, Directors

  "Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Newest Members of a Very Small Club". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 8, 2011.

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• There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

  Phil Heath

  Listening, Way, Hell

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• The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Miracle, Development

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Cat, Anxiety, May

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1874). “Chapters on Animals”, p.48

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• Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.

  Roy Romer

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Past, Thinking

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• By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

  C.P. Snow

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

  Paul Lutus

  Failure, Political, Opinion

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• The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Writing, Men

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• I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

  Raymond Cattell

  Science, Views, Two

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• Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.

  Mary Kissel

  Bars, Succeed, Grades

  "What role did Blumenthal play in Clinton's State Department?". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2015.

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• It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

  Paul Gigot

  Country, Football, Player

  Source: www.wsj.com

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