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“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”

Thinking Littles Different Political Numbers Class Teaching Students Taught Huge Transition Political Science Working Life Student Life

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“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

“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

“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

“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.”

Has Beens Government School Generations Heard Information Students Taught Drug High School Police Including Factual High School Students

Author:Ann Shulgin

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”

“Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.”

“A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.”

Ifs Ends Care Courses Found Study Team Students Taught Mathematics Take Care Math Score Abstinence

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“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.”

“I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.”

Ifs Years Art Students Taught College Aim Experts Just Saying College Students Undisputed Pomposity

Book:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

“When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo. So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.”

Form Teach Students Taught Bases Method Fundamentals Eight

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“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

“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I taught high school students Spanish.”

School Students Taught High School High School Students

Author:Daniela Bobadilla

“I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.”

Writing Years School Language Teach Students Taught High School Appreciate School English

Author:Mark Takano

“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”

People Students Taught Lessons Response I Realized Autonomy Conferences Assignments

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.”

Believe Book Self Fall Reading Responsibility Teach Talent Students Taught Reader Behavior Selling Lifelong Books And Reading

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

“Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.”

“I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.”

Teacher Teaching Students Taught Lessons Tests Importance Bases Blessed Valuable I Have Learned Good Teacher Valuable Lessons

Author:Erin Gruwell

“In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.”

Knows America Sound White Race Students Taught College Incredibles Exaggerated Disdain White Race

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I

“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.”

“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.”

Ifs Believe Persons Universe Three Force Students Taught Smart Doctors Creator Physics Invisible Idiotic Pseudoscience Meds

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.”

May Has Beens Important Desire Education Students Taught Regard Medical Statements Epitaph Important Work

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.”

Source: TIES THAT STRESS

“Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.”

Teaching Students Taught Customers Teaching Learning

Author:Alfie Kohn

“To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.”

Knows Moving Night Understanding Hours Teaching Havens Students Taught Materials Despair Paper Tests Educational Spending Checks Confusion Clock Papers Correcting Snowball

Author:Madeline Hunter

“I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months ago. I wrote a thing for Filmmaker Magazine a couple months ago. Occasionally, I'll get to go speak to students at a university and make a little money that way, which is great. I really like doing that.”

Way Littles Speak Stuff Class Design Students Taught Months Couple Organization University Profit Magazines Filmmaker Chicago Little Money Web Design

Author:Joe Swanberg

“Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.”

Writing Use Results Plans Students Taught Particular Research Method

Author:Patricia Leavy

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”

Way Should Writing Children Reason Speak Study Mystery Students Taught Please Exciting Sentences Medical Damn Grammar Anatomy

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.”

Littles Long Problem Understanding Students Taught Particular Theory Evolution Solve Acquire Biologist Theory Of Evolution Deep Understanding

Book:Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.”

Thinking Should Done Beautiful Film White One Thing Missing Students Taught Paper Musician Theater Down And Filled Experiments Composer Dots Beautiful Music Rectangles

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.”

World Children Today Challenges Economy Study Students Taught Skills Our Children Prepared Seeking Significant Gaps Employers Global Economy

Author:Stephen Covey

“Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans. My mom pushed me all the time. She knew that I could do it. She knew more than I did. She thought I would go somewhere. She gave me the job and helped me get equipment, which a lot of parents don't do. Alot of my students had to go out and fight for it.”

School Jobs Mother Fighting Parent Teacher Students Taught Brother Mom My Mom My Brother Equipment Brothers And Sisters Music Teacher

Author:Randy Rhoads

“The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.”

Made Play Song Church Poor Mistake Records Students Taught Concern Ill Piano Making Mistakes Dutch

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.”

Ifs Giving Left Too Much Students Taught Guts

Author:Victoria Chang

“I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?”

Faces Certain Students Taught University Terrorist Spokes Our Relationship Thrust Microphones Forums

Author:Bill Ayers

“I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.”

Way Young Students Taught Physics Urges Ecology Nature Love Young Students

Author:Vandana Shiva

“We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know that it is bad, but because there isn't any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact.”

Knows Years Reason Waiting Known Accepting Teach Students Taught Theory Evolution Let Me Acceptable Something Better Present Time Theory Of Evolution Synthetic

Author:Jerome Lejeune

“I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.”

Age Young Teacher Students Taught Female Males Young Age

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.”

Needs Use Difficult Space Teach Teacher Students Taught Materials Elements

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.”

Mean Long Said Left Morning Saws Heard Fans Students Taught Directors Very Good Tricks Long Ago Realised Denmark Danish

Author:Keith Johnstone

“Progressives are concerned about reports of Muslim students feeling 'marginalized' and discriminated against after the shooting massacre by an Islamic terrorist in Orlando, but there is little concern that - for years - students in the United States have been taught to dislike their country.”

Years Littles Has Beens Country States Feelings United United States Students Taught Concern Concerned Terrorist Shooting Islamic Reports Dislike Massacres Marginalized Orlando

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.”

Way Art Used Students Taught Fine Painter Girlfriend Department Distinction Mary San Francisco Chairman Institute Berkeley

Author:David C. Driskell

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