Students Quotes - Page 15

• So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Garden, Light, Literature

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press

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• Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the Union. Suppose Washington gave each parent even a $5,000 voucher - that wouldn't mean less money available per student. To the contrary, holding total education expenditures constant, it'd mean more money per student remaining in public schools.

  Walter E. Williams

  School, Mean, Achievement

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• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Clever, Book, Tough Questions

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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• Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Humanity, Adults

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• I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

  Merton Miller

  Data, Class, Patterns

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• Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Book, College, Community

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• At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Discipline, Expectations

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Friday, Teacher, Monday

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• I was a disinterested student.

  David Fincher

  Disinterested

  "David Fincher: The Complex Mind of 'Social Network's' Anti-Social Director" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2011.

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• School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

  Julian Fellowes

  Work, School, Careers

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• I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, White, Minorities

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