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“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.”

Thinking Knows Matter Kids Know How Teacher Pieces Subjects Achievement Critical Gaps Closing Subject Matter Impart Achievement Gap

Author:Margaret Spellings

“In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.”

Thinking Art Artist Subjects Achievement Musician Painter Architect Literary Art

Book:Facts and Comments

Source: Facts and Comments

“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.”

Life Is Fall Process Subjects Achievement Finished This Life Slips Precarious

Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection

“One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.”

Humans Achieve Subjects Achievement Dignity Tasks Human Dignity

Author:Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.”

Men Needs Wells Said Might Pleasure Talking Greater Subjects Duty Habit Achievement Consideration Boast Conceit Talking Much

Author:Martin Van Buren

“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”

Should Self Individual Subjects Achievement Bases Historical Immortality Decay Self Knowledge Sociological Individual Achievement Historical Knowledge

Book:English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society

Source: English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society

“We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.”

Giving Self Done Form Term Knowing Subjects Objects Involved Achievement Seeking Resurrection Objectivity Subjectivity Forms Of Love Self Giving

Author:N. T. Wright

“In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function.”

Trying May Said Form Science Subjects Fields Achievement Unique Function Relation Cells Contribution Biographies Evaluate Reproduction Hopkins Biochemistry

Author:Marjory Stephenson

“Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.”

Space Modern Subjects Possibility Changed Achievement Logic Visible Time And Space Monument Landmarks

Author:John von Neumann

“This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.”