Students Quotes - Page 29

• In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Knowledge, East

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Prayer, School, Squares

  "Our Very Own Taliban". prospect.org. December 19, 2001.

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• Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" - I mean the windward side, of course.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  War, Mean, Rights

  "Can 'Liberals' be Educated?". National Vanguard, July 8, 2005.

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• Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.

  Lloyd deMause

  War, Simple, Peaceful

  "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.

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• No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Loss, Serious, Neglect

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.

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• I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

  Richard Matheson

  Teacher, Hate, Nuts

  "Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson". Interview with Ed Gorman, Filmfax Magazine, 2004.

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• coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.

  David Mermin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.

  Allen Newell

  Years, Effort, Psychology

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• The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.

  Jose Peralta

  Teacher, New York, Children

  "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" by John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. May 21, 2003.

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• It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Practice, Psychology, Theory

  George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc

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• My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Smart, Years, Names

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

  Grant Teaff

  Teacher, Best Coaches, Best Teacher

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• This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.

  Ji Lee

  Art, School, Unique

  "Word as Image: 90 Animated Words". Book by Ji Lee, October 4, 2011.

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• At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as make the process of admission easier in order to enroll and keep a higher number of students in class.

  Shaheen Mistri

  School, Order, Class

  "The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right - India". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.

  Shaheen Mistri

  Teacher, Strong, School

  "The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right - India". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Assessment, Skills

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

  Susan Mann

  Technology, Support, Parent

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Witty, Teacher

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.74, New Press, The

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• I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago.  I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested.  Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently.  They see you can come together and have a positive impact.  I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.

  Ed Garvey

  Dirty, Winning, College

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• George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Southern, President

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• Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says he can't wait to just take it all in, hold it for several seconds, and then exhale.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Beautiful, Jamaica, Yesterday

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• Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.

  Jimmy Fallon

  College, People, Want

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• Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Details, Java

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• The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career

  Arn Tellem

  Careers, Should, Pursue

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