Students Quotes - Page 36

• When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Meditation

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• As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Attitude, Buddhism

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• A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

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• Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

  Susan Mann

  Technology, Support, Parent

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

  A. S. Byatt

  Children, Book, Numbers

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• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Passion, Fiction, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.23, tredition

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• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.

  Alfred Goodwin

  Teacher, School, Understanding

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• I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

  David Plotz

  Book, School, Thinking

  "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.

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• I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

  Gary Sloan

  Atheist, School, Numbers

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• I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.

  Spencer Grammer

  Summer, Dirty, School

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

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• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Ideas, Differences, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path, Rama

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• In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

  Trina Robbins

  Hippie, Reading, Character

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!

  Charles Eisenstein

  Dog, School, Perfect

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• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  Anthony Daniels

  Children, School, Typical

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• The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Important

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• I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

  Nicholas Braun

  Drama, School, Kids

  "Seventeen Chats with Nicholas Braun!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 10, 2009.

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• It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

  Terry McMillan

  School, Boys, Class

  Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.77, Penguin

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• An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dream, Appreciation, Thinking

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Two, Boston

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• There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pleasure, Attending, Unspeakable

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.239

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• He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Authorship, Should

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• Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

  Shanola Hampton

  Fun, Teaching, Able

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