Students Quotes - Page 34

• As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

  Hans Hofmann

  Teacher, Desire, Speak

  It ls magazine, Winter-Spring 1959.

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• If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Listening, Looks

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

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• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, College, Years

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.331, Anchor

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• Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

  Warren Farrell

  Father, School, Math

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Class, Decision

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.196, Macmillan

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• One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Sorry, Ideas

  "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

  Louis C. K.

  Mom, Mother, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

  Jack Jason

  Art, Years, California

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, School, People

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Teacher, Teacher Student, Ideals

  Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, College, Class

  "Pelosi: Higher Education Bill is Bipartisan Investment in College Affordability and in America's Middle Class". Press release, July 31, 2008.

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• For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

  Carroll Quigley

  Two, Years, People

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Teacher, Challenges, Use

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• I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially hate American students. They think you owe them something. They come to you ... Office hours!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hate, Teaching, Thinking

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• I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

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• Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

  Douglas Conant

  Giving, Leader, Crafts

  "Why Small Interactions Matter". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

  Annalee Newitz

  Believe, Data, Want

  "Cyber rights... and wrongs" by Erica Hill, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2003.

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• Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Needs, Painting, Abstract

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• We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.

  Nelson Shanks

  Teacher, Numbers, People

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• I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

  Abe Ajay

  Color, Looks, Use

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

  David A. Kolb

  Teacher, Learning, Giving

  David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, Joyce Osland (1991). “Organizational behavior: an experiential approach”

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• my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Opportunity, Years, Interesting

  Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine, Winter 2005.

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