Syllabus Quotes

• Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  School, Religion, Consciousness

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.81, Sahitya Akademi

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• There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Glasses, Ideas

  A S Byatt (2009). “The Children's Book”, p.119, Random House

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• Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  Guides, Guide Me

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.176, Broadway Books

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• The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Ordinary

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• What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Years, Envy

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• The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

  W. W. Sawyer

  School, Formal Education, Known

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• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Faith, Inspiration, Charity

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• I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

  Susan Orlean

  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  Camille Paglia

  Students, Study, Canon

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.75, Canongate Books

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• At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

  Kelly Reilly

  School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"

  Keith Carradine

  School, Waiting, Mind

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

  Laura Mullen

  Years, Gertrude, Phds

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

  Salman Rushdie

  Journey, Long, Mumbai

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