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• Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

  Kenny G

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Believe, Reading

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• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Gunter Grass

  Achievement, Want

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• Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, College, Benefits

  Derek Bok (2009). “Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Practice, Effort

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• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Art, Hard Work, Math

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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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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• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Son, Doors, Class

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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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• 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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• It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightened, Incumbents

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

  Dick Cavett

  Dames, Comedy, Should

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• There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

  Seymour Sarason

  Teacher, School, Assumption

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• How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as they navigate the beautiful but treacherous waters of a seminary education. I plan to use this powerful little book with great profit for my students in the years ahead.

  Daniel L. Akin

  Beautiful, Christian, Powerful

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Discovery, Views

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Essence, Practice

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• The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

  Max Weber

  Teacher, Party, Mean

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge

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