Students Quotes - Page 38

• I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

  Mark Takano

  Writing, School, Years

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• University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

  Kate Cruise O'Brien

  Death, University Students, Able

  Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.

  Nicolas Cage

  Mean, Expression, Trying

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com.

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• It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

  Big Sean

  Teacher, Men, Evolution

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.

  Jason Mraz

  Play, Guy, Affirmation

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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• If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Teacher, School, Way

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• I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright.

  Donald Margulies

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

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• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mother, Men, Fire

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• Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

  Jon Appleton

  Numbers, Ideas, Musical

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

  Jon Appleton

  Giving, Parent, Pressure

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Forever, Ego

  "Pharrell, Ryan Seacrest Tout The Joys Of Multi-Tasking At Cannes Lions". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. June 25, 2015.

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• The student armed with information will always win the battle.

  Meladee McCarty

  Winning, Battle, Information

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• A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

  Donalyn Miller

  Teacher, Reading, Expectations

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• Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Support

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

  Donalyn Miller

  Reading, Writing, Choices

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Responsibility, Enlightenment

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• Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Aliens, Strikes

  Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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• I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Book, Men

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Acting, Impossible, Study

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• Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Discovery, Political

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