Students Quotes - Page 23

• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Library

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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• As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.

  Tania Bruguera

  School, Artist, Way

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• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Prudence, Bores

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

  Plato

  Teacher, Learning, Science

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• First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Night, Avid, Life And Death

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Want, Study, Painting

  Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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• In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

  Hilda Solis

  Lunch, Community, Mentor

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• Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

  Michael Gurian

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

  Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Tom Harkin

  Hero, Community, Together

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