Students Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

  Ron Paul

  Gun, Virginia, Safe

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

  Joel Klein

  Computer, Fronts

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• Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

  George W. Bush

  Teaching, School, Humor

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• The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Yale

  "A Charge to Keep". Book by George W. Bush, 1999.

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• Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.

  Riane Eisler

  Teacher, Children, Communication

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• In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Teacher, Jobs, Communication

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• Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

  Ron Rubin

  Communication, Opportunity, Difficult Work

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• Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Land, Pollution Control

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Fighting, Opposites

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• Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

  Libba Bray

  School, Thinking, Tools

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• But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Passion, Thinking

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• The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, May, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

  Dennis Prager

  New York, War, Evil

  "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

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• A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

  Deval Patrick

  Teacher, Differences, And Love

  "Reflections on Going from the Ghetto to Governor's Office". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

  Mitch McConnell

  Children, Hard Work, School

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• I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.

  Zig Ziglar

  Needs, Things Change, Constant

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• My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

  Monte Irvin

  Mother, Father, Two

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• One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Skills, California, Cooking

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• Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

  Al Capp

  Rights, Color, Skins

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• As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Thinking, Ymca

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• Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.

  Richard Lewontin

  Believe, Discovery, Age

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

  Simon Pegg

  Adults, Want, Like You

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Failing, Turns

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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