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• Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

  Richard Ernst

  Real, Needs, Literature

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• When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, University Students, Car

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• And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Debt, Want

  "State of the Union 2015: Full transcript". edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2015.

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• We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, School

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Aliens, Strikes

  Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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• I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  Nancy Allen

  Running, Real, School

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Book, Men

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• I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Communication, School

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• In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Ignorance, Opposites

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Acting, Impossible, Study

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• I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

  Sara Canning

  School, Ambitious, Theater

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• Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Discovery, Political

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• I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate.

  Sophia Bush

  Ignorance, College, Thinking

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• I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

  Tyler Hilton

  Mom, Teacher, Sides

  Write It Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Cynical, Want, Outsiders

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• Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

  Ron Paul

  Gun, Virginia, Safe

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Humility, Class, Feelings

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• Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

  Joel Klein

  Computer, Fronts

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• Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

  George W. Bush

  Teaching, School, Humor

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• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Religious, Prayer

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• I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, College, Political

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