“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.” AnimalWonderStudentsDevelopmentOffersMiraclePlantWorthyOperationsAdmirationEmbryosInspection Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.” NeedsYearsHas BeensSchoolValuesProcessStudentsOffersYears AgoNutritionCommitteesExtensionsCurvesCoventry Author:Michael Reeves
“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.” WayMindBodyStudySeaStudentsBuddhismKeysOffersSakeMind And BodyRenounce Author:Dogen
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.” PeopleWayPersonsFallNamesNationsAnswersRaceLeaderMoralStudentsBuildingJudgingCitizensCallingOffersToolsLawyerClarityFeaturesOur TimeOur SocietyRacistEducatorAnalyticsExemplaryName CallingDefensiveness Author:Martha Minow
“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.” BookSelfHelpingCultureReligiousMeditationSelf HelpStudentsBuddhismOffersTraditionWesternInsightAdvertisingCuriousJapanScholarStereotypeEnjoyableRefreshingReligious TraditionsJapanese CultureArcherySelf Help BooksHelp Book Author:Alexander Gardner
“It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.” EndsEnoughCoursesAbilityStudentsOffersEatingTables Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti
“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.” PeopleIfsWellsHelpingRealityKidsWantedJobsPoliticsCommunityDifferencesWorkPoorMoneyEducationClassPovertyMiddleCarPolicyStudentsCollegeAmountOffersShotsProgramBiggerMajorityStrategyPropertyPopulationAccessExtrasGuaranteesReliefMiddle ClassPoor PeopleLoanSmall AmountsHelp The PoorStudent LoanHelp Poor People Author:Megan McArdle
“Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.” MatterGovernmentLawPoliticalSituationSupportEconomicStudentsOffersOriginalsUnionsUniversityCommunismDesperateCommunistSovietGraduatesSoviet UnionCubaGraduate StudentsLaw Students Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.” YearsJobsCommunityMy OwnFourStudentsCollegeOffersDegreesFour YearsRoutesAffordableCollege DegreeCommunity College Author:Jill Biden
“With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions.” ThinkingStoriesProcessMy OwnSimpleNovelSubjectsStudentsOffersLaysDeeperNarrativeTensionThemeDefiningMessyWorkshops Author:Edan Lepucki
“There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsChildrenHelpingWishParentSupportPathTeacherOur LivesStudentsTypeOffersGuidesUnconditionalLife PathKnowledge And Experience Author:John Friend
“As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.” KnowsFeelsWould BeTeachBreakStudentsOffersExcitedClassroomDrainedRefocus Author:Emily Barton
“The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.” PeopleFirstsHelpingAmericaNumbersMiddleStudentsOffersFirst TimeVictimUniversityProtectionUsualElitesImperialismMiddle America Author:Noam Chomsky
“However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.” IfsPersonsHelpingYoungLiteratureStudentsOffersBirdOfferingPropeller Author:Norman MacCaig
“History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.” GivingSocialHistoryEventsStudentsOffersMercyEldersVicarious Author:Hilary Mantel
“As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.” ChildrenIdeasEndsRunningFilmCareersChangedStudentsCollegeIndustryOffersAmbitionEconomicsIndiaArmyInvestmentNo IdeaHonourGrandfatherBankingNavyMy GrandfatherMerchantsMy AmbitionFilm IndustryModellingInvestment BankingJoining The ArmyCollege Days Author:Arjun Rampal
“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.” ThinkingWayInspirationalFeelsHeartFeelingsTodayStudentsOffersCapableClimateSakeFeel GoodExpressive Author:Jason Mraz
“We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.” IfsWantFeelsShouldHas BeensReasonMightAbleFoundFeltViewsPowerfulSituationStudentsReadyOffersShould HaveStrongerDistanceSufficientMotiveGatesBedroomMight Have BeenRecogniseSuburbsEnviedActualityRioHigh Points Author:Alain de Botton