Students Quotes - Page 10

• I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

  Amar Bose

  Giving, Maximizing, Corporations

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

  E. M. Forster

  Past, Clouds, Youth

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• All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

  Rex Brandt

  Artist, Quality, Term

  Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”

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• The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Children, Play, Mind

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• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

  Philip Zimbardo

  School, Mafia, Hollywood

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Giving, Principles

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• Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

  Kevin Myers

  Kids, People, Tools

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• There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Entering, Truth Is

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

  Robert Breault

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Tough

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• It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience my body while on campus. I didn’t think there was anything to choose about a sexual culture. I’d only ever known the one I grew up in. But it did matter, and in ways I wouldn’t have even predicted.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  School, Thinking, Differences

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• Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

  Bill Walton

  Sports, Skills, Today

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• If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophical, Giving, Society

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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• Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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• You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

  "Art of Teaching".

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• I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

  Jacques Barzun

  Thinking, Cheerful, Pessimist

  "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.

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• Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Becoming Better, Focus, Attention

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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• Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Believe, Healing

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

  Gunter Grass

  Achievement, Want

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• Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

  Dick Cavett

  Dames, Comedy, Should

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Struggle, Opportunity, Should Have

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• Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

  Florynce Kennedy

  People, Black, Minorities

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• You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

  George Pataki

  Helping, States, Enormous

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• When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Want, Firsts

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