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“In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.”

Political Opinion Students Failure Symbols American Education

Author:Paul Lutus

“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.”

“I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.”

Thinking Book Helping Might Would Be Reading Students Reader Fit Picks Guides Mentor

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.”

Position Students Succeed Rate University Bars Grades Passages Qualified

Author:Mary Kissel

“It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.”

People Want Important Different Country Player Students Football Like You Backgrounds Variety Exposed Football Player Different Backgrounds

Author:Paul Gigot

“Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.”

Ifs Millions Students Percent Twelve Balanced Smarter Triggers Restriction

Author:John Merrow

“Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.”

Teacher Students Involved Method Active Interaction Teacher And Student Socratic

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.”

People Years Facts Four Students Training African American Fake Four Years Belts Unprepared

Author:Misty Copeland

“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.”

Thinking Way Mind Persons Art Book School Values Reading Brain Students Type Needed Sitting Connections Height Reaching Classroom Full Potential Good Students

Author:Misty Copeland

“I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.”

Acting Students College Becoming Grades Archaeology Archaeologists Bad Grades Good College

Author:Ben Stiller

“A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!”

Artist Students Paint Shock Great Art Great Artist Whistler

Author:James Whistler

“A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.”

Writing Mind Whole Asks Pieces Students Emergencies Sequence

Author:William Stafford

“When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.”

Stills Ideas Numbers Students College Pages Magazines Titles Editors

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.”

Mind Matter Facts Order Growth Students College Healthy Normal Management University Kicks Protest Academic Riot Matter Of Fact Colleges And Universities

Author:William Allen White

“We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.”

Trying Students Increase Currents Instruction Efficiency

Author:Steve Miller

“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.”

Ifs Past Education Land Students Taught Terrible Quiet Twenties Museums Mute

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.”

Years Two Study Air Students Months Summer Ordinary Dues Instruction Two Months

Author:Howard Pyle

“When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?”

Knows Writing Mean Book Bigs Students Taught Like You Reader I Realized

Author:David Sedaris

“I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.”

Knows Believe Humor Courses Asks Jesus Christ Religious Blood Students Jesus Christ Positive Atheism Ask Me Savior Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Blood Of Jesus

Author:Jerry Falwell

“Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.”

Process Water Teacher Teaching Students Draws Reservoirs Water Of Life

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.”

I Can Students Discipline

Author:Marva Collins

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage: it will discover to himself his own deficiencies and this discovery alone is a very considerable acquisition.”

May Matter Teaching Students Discovery Advantage Leaving Trials Acquisition Deficiency

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.”

Ifs Needs Trying Matter Done Body Young Bits Realizing Teach Students Your Body Coaches Tendencies Going To Work Athletic Bad Health

Author:Reynolds Price

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

Creative Students Materials Discipline Function Guides Guidance Creative Work

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?”

People Believe Doe Next Jesus Causes Natural Results Steps Teach Students Messages Tendencies Substance Next Steps Apprentice

Author:Dallas Willard

“The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.”

Ifs Home Body Bigs Games Students Bears Texas Tickets Site Revenue Neutrality

Author:Darrell Royal

“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”

World Art Ideas Artist Situation Study Students University Museums Academic Art Students

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Study Students Painting

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“I always keep myself in a position of being a student.”

Opportunity Position Students

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Should Firsts Two Book Literature Views Emotion Study Students Method Point Of View Thoughts And Emotions Workmanship

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.”

People Thinking Giving Enough Age Students College Come Up Credit Range Grandparent College Students Disney Channel

Author:Hilary Duff

“I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.”

Want Students Regret My Family Circles Assumption Comment Vietnam Apologizing Colleagues Personal Life Distortion Family Friends

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

“We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.”

Age Wanted Political Reading Parent Walks Watches Clear Students Conversation Impact Including Actresses Participation Viewers Entry Walks Of Life

Author:Brian Lamb

“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.”

Needs Giving Able School Asks Individual Strong Parent Decision Teacher Design Students Program Partnership Permission Bureaucracy Flexibility Public School Charter School Teachers

Author:Gary Larson

“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Ends School Purpose Force Students Evolution Strategy Accomplish

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.”

People Should Important Cases Students Huge Conversation Messages University Openness Diplomacy Monologues Cultural Exchange

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.”

Half Students Devotion Yale Pissed Off

Author:Kiki Smith

“I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?”

Art Use Felt Loneliness New York Students Europe Tradition Lonely Longing Theatre Intense Germany Bewildered Craftsmanship

Book:Alfred Stieglitz

Source: Alfred Stieglitz

“Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.”

Men Law Understanding Students Draws Laws Of Nature

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.”

Should Courses Students Taught Civilization Majors Ideology Continents Scholarship

Author:Diane Ravitch

“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.”

Firsts Littles Home School Jobs Remember Students High School Cooking Profession Bars Our Family Heat Carter Handicaps

Author:Bobby Flay

“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Thinking Firsts May Teach Students Paper Finals Hardest Editing Vague Hardest Thing Identification

Author:M. H. Abrams

“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.”

Way Firsts Purpose Realizing Effort Teaching Achieve Students Breakthrough Better Ways Freeze

Author:M. H. Abrams

“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”

Firsts Long Important Hard Simple Study Students Painting Relation Fundamentals Important Things Spots Realization

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.”

Ifs Years Littles Kids Spirit Wonder New York Students Cynicism Orchestra Scratches Fatigue Music Love Cynic Exuberance Old Music

Author:Zubin Mehta

“We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.”

Ifs Students College Cost Concern Financial Aids Pace Inflation Financial Aid

Author:Mary Johnson

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips