The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
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Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit Fascist pig this and that but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago.. Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.
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How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
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The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.
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I think the world is run by 'C' students.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly.. Music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees..
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If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
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The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
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When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.
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In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
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