Students Quotes - Page 7

• Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.

  Jon Stewart

  Father, Yale, White

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• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist, Class

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• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Criticism, Body

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  B. F. Skinner

  Tasks, Behavior, Formal

  "Performance-based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education". Book by Jacalyn Lea Lund and Mary Fortman Kirk, p. 165, 2002.

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• When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Your Side

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

  Neil Peart

  Responsibility, Get Better, Masters

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• I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Why Not

  Jorge Luis Borges (2013). “Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

  Walter Pater

  Special, Quality, Useless

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

  Andrew Card

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, multimedia.cbs.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

  Robertson Davies

  Graduates, Champagne, Wit

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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• The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Life Is Too Short, Musical, World

  "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.

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• As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

  David Naughton

  Play, London, Shows

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• The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

  Jared Polis

  Strong, Jobs, Children

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• I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Want, Normal

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• I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Writing, Names, Errors

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• The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Morning, Team

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• You can't motivate a student you don't know.

  Ted Sizer

  Knows

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• I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

  Terence Lewis

  Dies

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• Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Fonts, Classroom

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations, Long, People

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• For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

  Barney Frank

  College, Expression, President

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• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Community, Together

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• The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

  Paul Simon

  Country, Powerful, Messages

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