“When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.” MayMatterPastPurposeValuesTermAbilityTeachTeacherEffectsStudentsProduceTestsNo Matter WhatGenuineCeaseBoredScoreHookShort TermExaminationTest Scores Author:Myron Tribus
“The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'” LooksPersonsDifferentSelfCharacterAsksResearchExaminationLook At YourselfSelf-examination Author:Vera Farmiga
“I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.” WayFirstsHumansWellsDifficultDarkHuman BeingsSubjectsReflectionExaminationDifficult Subjects Author:Marya Hornbacher
“I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.” MenGivingKindSelfStatesWholeActionSpaceWeekReaderOne DaySeriesForgottenSettingSettingsEmploymentIndifferentJournalExaminationInclineOmissionSelf-examinationKeeping A JournalEasily Forgotten Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell
“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.” ShouldLightForceEssenceDestroyedFlamesResortsExaminationExaggerationBenevolentExaggeratingExaggeration Is Author:Victor Hugo
“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.” KnowsSelfFaultsExaminationCharitableSelf-examination Author:Francois Fenelon
“In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.” FunnyLawWaterHumorousCrossesLawyerFishingExaminationFisherman Author:Louis Nizer
“The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.” DifferentPrinciplesPeriodsHistoricalCriticalInstanceContributionExaminationLinguisticsLinguistsEmbarking Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.” ShouldRealityRiskHavensPleaseSafeAimUniversityExaminationRuthlessSafe HavenDispleasure Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.” FeelingsImaginationWorrySpeechAnxietyAbsolutesThreatReasoningUnconsciousAnxiousRepresentationExaminationSymbolicFacilitate Author:Willard Gaylin
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” AsksDiedFinishedExperimentsPostsExaminationStatistician Author:Ronald Fisher
“I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.” HumansCharacterFilmTermInterestWallBehaviorAlternativesHuman BehaviorExamination Author:William Friedkin