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«There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
entering, professor, relative, student, the University, university
«The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience»
Author: Charley Jones
| Keywords:
college student, compensates, conferred, knocked, knock off, School of, sheepskin, sheepskins, student, The school
«The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it»
Author: Matilda Joslyn Gage
| Keywords:
advancing, History of Christianity, retard, retarding, student
«To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation ? not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.»
«The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.»
«The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquire, conceptual, developing, e'en, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, essentials, further, i.e., integrate, integrates, I E, student, theoretical, The Knowledge, training, train of thought
«The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.»
Author: Warren Buffett
| About:
Journalism,
Press,
Reading,
Society
| Keywords:
better off, degree, inform, informing, informs, In the press, Journalists, press, press on, smarter, student, teacher, the press, The Teacher, well-off
«This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
acquisitive, capitalism, competitive, crippled, cripples, crippling, educational, educational system, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, inculcate, inculcated, individuals, preparation, student, suffers, trained, worship
«To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
fellow, learner, learners, student, teacher
