Quotes with students

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Boy George Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
    RBTV (Rainier Beach High School TeleVision in Seattle), 1996 (youtube clip)
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Toni Morrison I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Bell Hooks I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Adam Schiff If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Abe Fortas It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
    Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Cass Sunstein It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Campbell Brown More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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