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“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”

School Talking Teacher Students Conversation Intellectual

“Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.”

Ifs Helping Running School Democracy Students Succeed Helping Others Preparation Grades

Author:William Glasser

“In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.”

Book Helping School Asks Quality Teacher Teaching Students Tests Notes Forbidden

Author:William Glasser

“Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?”

World Real Helping School Accepting Students Passing Passings Grades Real World Lowest Competence Competent

Author:William Glasser

“As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.”

Source: Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence

“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”

Ifs Teaching Students Tests Score Connecting Competence Schooling Eliminating Test Scores

Author:William Glasser

“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.”

Want Should Able Hours Interesting Half Teacher Groups Subjects Students Perspective Conversation Profession Friendly Interesting Conversation

Author:William Glasser

“I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.”

Ifs Want Should Believe I Believe Example Students Fine Treats University Access Data Bandwidth

Author:Annalee Newitz

“Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.”

Needs Students Painting Type Painter Abstract Flexibility Unlearn

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”

People Want Ends Lost Poor Numbers Teach Teacher Students Tragedy Technique Hungry Reserves Starving Aesthetics Crawling Precipice

Author:Nelson Shanks

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”

Ifs Looks Enough Use Subjects Students Color Colour Good Enough Advise

Author:Abe Ajay

“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.”

Art Rooms Watches Students Painting Office Comfortable Areas Meetings Studios Clients Art Students

Author:Doug Dawson

“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.”

Giving Process Roles Learning Teacher Students Adults Critical Conception Evident Teacher Student Adult Learning

Book:Organizational behavior: an experiential approach

Source: Organizational behavior: an experiential approach

“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

People Looks Important Problem School Ability Half Teach Study Teacher Subjects Fronts Students Laughed Classmates

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

Want Trying Years Mind Opportunity Decision Interesting Risk Advice Students Twenties Passionate Pursue Rest Of Your Life Most Interesting Your Freedom

Author:Kenneth C. Griffin

“No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?”

Doe Self Philosophy Certain Values Fall Left Party Economic Students Wings Champion Libertarianism Centre Right Wing Left Wing Self Reliant Economic Value

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.”

People Ifs Important Ideas Problem Home Young Political Values Social Views Share Students College Argument Function Proportion Professors Odds Popularity Entitled Outrage Social Values

Author:Ellen Willis

“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.”

Next Known Students Exercise University Hills Fitting Virginia Participants Researchers Steep Friendliness

Author:Tara Parker-Pope

“Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills”

Teacher Students Skills Devotion

Author:Yip Man

“We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.”

Ifs Needs Mind Attitude Knowledge Students Army Constant Genuine Questioning Zombie Jellyfish

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.”

Knowledge Teacher Students West East Impart Transmit

Book:Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

Source: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

“Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.”

Knows Long Stills School America Prayer Groups Students Praying Responsible Blame Court Clubs Terrorist Familiar Throwing Squares Public School Jerry Terrorist Attacks

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" - I mean the windward side, of course.”

Ifs World May Mean War Young Courses Sides Forever Rights Students Judging Importance Appearance Staying Soap Campus

Author:Revilo P. Oliver

“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”

War Simple Students Taught Notion Myth Peaceful Savages Anthropologists

Author:Lloyd deMause

“No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.”

Loss Students Serious Versions Neglect

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.”

Stories Hate Novel Teacher Written Students Inspire I Hate Nuts

Author:Richard Matheson

“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.”

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

“In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.”

“The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.”

“It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.”

Practice Psychology Students Theory Contrast Principal Colleagues Ardent Physical Science Disheartening

Book:Philosophy of Mind

Source: Philosophy of Mind

“My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.”

Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.”

Teacher Students Coaches Great Teacher Best Teacher Best Coaches

Author:Grant Teaff

“This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.”

“At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as make the process of admission easier in order to enroll and keep a higher number of students in class.”

Wells Government School Order Process Hours Levels Numbers Class Policy Students Higher Easier Increase Locals Admission Local Government

Author:Shaheen Mistri

“School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.”

Should Wells Has Beens Enough School Strong Parent Support Teacher Students Elements Training Resources Critical Principal Student Success Ecosystems Administrators School Principal

Author:Shaheen Mistri

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.”

Giving Use Next Individual Understanding Goal Results Steps Teacher Seeing Achieve Students Fine Skills Tools Determine Online Classroom Assessment Next Steps Differentiation Assisting

Author:Susan Mann

“Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.”

Parent Challenges Technology Support Awareness Students Safe Responsible Users Discerning

Author:Susan Mann

“Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.”

Wanted Teacher Wise Teaching Students Witty Irreverent

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.”

People Years Said Two Together Winning Issues Students College Years Ago Impact Dirty Two Years Spokes Public Service Campus Wisconsin Positive Impact Dirty Words Two Years Ago College Campus

Author:Ed Garvey

“George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.”

Said President Comedy Students Materials Speech University Southern Weekend Commencement Methodists Commencement Speech

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says he can't wait to just take it all in, hold it for several seconds, and then exhale.”

Beautiful Waiting President Leader Students Yesterday Seconds President Obama Traveled Caribbean Beautiful Places Jamaica

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.”

People Ifs Want Has Beens Young Students College Vote Democrat College Students Midterms

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.”

Wells Belief Language Teach Students Easier Harder Details Programming Java Python

Author:Guido van Rossum

“The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career”

Should Careers Students Pursue

Author:Arn Tellem

“The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!”

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