Students Quotes - Page 27

• If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Listening, Looks

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

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• One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

  Bel Kaufman

  Dream, School, Tree

  Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the Down Stair Case”

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• One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

  Jane Jacobs

  Wonder, Enough, Uncaring

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 79, 2004.

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• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, College, Years

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.331, Anchor

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• Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

  Warren Farrell

  Father, School, Math

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

  Stephen L. Carter

  School, Order, Joy

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, April 1, 2002.

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• Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Class, Decision

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.196, Macmillan

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• One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Sorry, Ideas

  "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.

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• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Humble, Law

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

  Jean Chretien

  Democracy, Reform, Would Be

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  Anthony Daniels

  Children, School, Typical

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• When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of
  fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo.
  So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Eight, Fundamentals, Taught

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• I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Religious, Opportunity

  "Dembski to head seminary's new science & theology center". Jeff Robinson, Baptist Press, September 16, 2004.

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

  Louis C. K.

  Mom, Mother, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Kids, Study

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

  Jack Jason

  Art, Years, California

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, School, People

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.

  Steve Blank

  Years, Ideas, Three

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.

  David Horowitz

  Running, Dream, Party

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• The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Teacher, Teacher Student, Ideals

  Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

  Larry Page

  Simple, Algorithms, Research

  Larry Page's plenary lecture at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, www.youtube.com. February 15-19, 2007.

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• By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, College, Class

  "Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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• For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

  Carroll Quigley

  Two, Years, People

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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