Students Quotes - Page 40

• To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

  Garry Disher

  Writing, Reader, Cents

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• My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

  Jane McGonigal

  Mom, Teacher, School

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• When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

  Charles Finch

  Oxford, Flow, Immortality

  Charles Finch (2008). “The September Society”, p.45, Macmillan

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• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  Hannah Kent

  Iceland, Stories, Firsts

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  Arthur Evans

  Real, School, Character

  Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople

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  A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

  Bill Parcells

  Teacher, Succeed, Environment

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Believe, School, Media

  "Your Social Score Is the New Credit Score" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

  Sal Albanese

  Kids, Parent, Needs

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Athletic, Good Students

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• So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

  Andre Iguodala

  Basketball, Player, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, scores.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

  Nicholas Royle

  Writing, Ideas, Poetry

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• If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Believe, Doctors

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• Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

  Jake Anderson

  Class, Giving, Needs

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• It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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• I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  College, Color, Challenges

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• The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.

  Eric Jensen

  Art, Remember Something, Body

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• I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

  George Steiner

  Rewards, Chairs, Continents

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, Historical

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• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

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• By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone

  Tim Samaras

  Running, College, Long

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• Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

  Joseph DeRisi

  Past, Technology, Dna

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• Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Teacher, School, Cinema

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• I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, School, Office

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• After I got disciplined I got introduced to football and then after that everything just took off for me. I had a lot of role models: the teachers, the coaches. Watching them give so much to so many students so they can be successful in life basically just ingrained in me that I think it's more gratifying for me to give back and than just to receive.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Teacher, Successful

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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