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“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

Way Trying Wells May Art Natural Talent Students Becoming Reflection Labor Tasks Roots Fruit Perseverance Vain Excellent Appropriate Instruction Pupils Adapted Natural Talent

Book:Selected Works

Source: Selected Works

“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.”

“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”

People Wells Has Beens Young Motivation Successful Achieve Students Amount Investment Programmes Nasa Stimulation

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.”

Believe Humans Reality Light Seems Government Age Pay Study Progress Middle Students Ought South Bombs Cheer South Africa Senators Middle Ages Examination Hydrogen Human Progress Hydrogen Bomb

Book:Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim

“I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.”

Men Chance Education Situation Students Source Lows Determination Tests University Great Men Grades Yield Take A Chance Traumatic Experiences

Author:Edwin Land

“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.”

Ideas Education Students College Demand Suits Uneducated Proclaiming

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.”

Ends Body Political Social Sound Students Demand Flow University Educational Eras Consideration Privileged Criteria Strategic Campus Dissidents Appeasement

Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.”

Want Humans Courses Actors Human Nature Students Particular Aspect Psychological Toms Psychologist

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves”

Teach Environment Teacher Wise Students Encourage Students

Author:Leonard Roy Frank

“Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”

Years Firsts Students Health Disease Cures Panic Meds

Book:Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

Source: Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

“All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.”

Knows Needs Book Students Color Theory Waste Wheels Colour Time And Money Color Wheel

Author:Sergei Bongart

“The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.”

Way Values Asks Students Color Paint Glasses Flesh Horrible Spots Prescriptions Copper

Author:Sergei Bongart

“Different instructors' approaches may 'clash' with each other and result in confusion and unclear direction for the students. It's like attempting to learn how to write using both hands at the same time. How far would you go?”

Writing May Different Hands Results Teaching Students Approach Confusion Attempting Clash Instructors Unclear

Author:Igor Babailov

“It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.”

Teacher Teaching Students Mislead

Author:Igor Babailov

“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.”

Art Differences Teach Effects Students Perception Traffic Subtlety Small Differences

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”

Art Artist Havens Students Generosity Generous Colour Works Of Art Palette Nickels Squeezing Art Students

Author:John French Sloan

“One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.”

Persons Art Bigs School Given Business Failing Teaching Students Art School

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.”

Knows Want Helping Care Desire Asks Students Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.”

Artist Poor Students Vices Vice Versa Good Students

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Ideas Five Minutes Students Good Ideas Five Minutes

Author:Judith Weir

“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.”

Ifs Jobs Can Do Answers Knowing Teacher Teaching Students Exciting Sells Excited Goods Stirring

Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.”

Ifs Stills Problem Might Education Students Thirds Drunk Third Time

Author:Felix Gonzalez-Torres

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.”

Feels Should Kind Mean Persons Stories Turns Asks Talking Car Students Type Beats Stranger Journalism Worried Journalist Retiring Tape Loan Edits Capers

Author:David

“You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.”

“Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.”

Responsibility Students East Student Success

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.”

Real Dream Able Goal My Own Students International Lawyer Singers Graduates Own Business Famous Singer

Author:Charice Pempengco

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.”

People Thinking School Culture Economy Students Increase Debt Technique Consumers Acquire Graduates Efficient Traps Components Unlikely Loaded Fees Time To Think Tuition

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”

“It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.”

Thinking Issues Students Achievement Findings Exciting Cancer Cures Gaps Closing Achievement Gap

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].”

Thinking Mind Firsts Long Made Important Matter Mistake Events Students Draws Add Finals Physics Objectives Arrows Involving Analyzing Photons

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.”

Ifs Thinking World Stills Sometimes Students Research Scientist Originals Native Carrie Peculiar Prerogative

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

Powerful Students Coaching Dimensions Illiterate Unlearn Future Shock

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.”

“Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.”

Should Shows Together Study Students Becoming Should Have Mathematics Math Experts

Author:Jay Leno

“A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?”

Ifs Shows Nations Study Students Becoming Chemistry Trends Labs Illiterate Blowing Up

Author:Jay Leno

“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.”

“We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.”

Believe Next Social Waiting Generations Students Entrepreneur Partners Classroom Toms Next Generation Milestone Skype

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.”

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.”

Writing Has Beens Action Lost Pay Cutting Students College Consequence Letters Iraq Aids Enormous Loved Ones Email Constituents

Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.”

People Sometimes Enough Students

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.”

People Should Different Running Kids School Choices Nations Parent Students Higher Tests Competition Surprise International Score Student Success Private School Test Scores

Author:John Stossel

“I was a straight-A student, baby!”

Students Baby

Author:Gloria Estefan

“In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.”

Young Found Acceptance Students Lows Standards Architect

Author:Christopher Alexander

“As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.”

“I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills on the businessman's special to Tokyo.”

“I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.”

Young Teach Hell Students Holy University Wide Scripture Gates Impress Holy Scriptures Young Students

Book:Three Treatises

Source: Three Treatises

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