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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...

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Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told...

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Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neat...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misundersto...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the a...

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Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't att...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowl...

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Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rat...

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I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he give...

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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the pole...

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As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...

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Phillip E. JohnsonAn Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no e...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn po...

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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoi...

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at ...

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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...

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The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...

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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly stud...

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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completio...

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Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the stu...

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member ha...

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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students...

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In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning...

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Bill BrysonThe Lost Continent & Neither Here Nor There

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he ...

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Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It ...

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He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into a...

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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform its...

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Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...

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