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"I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created."
"What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ."
"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students."
"As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it."
"If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood ."
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"Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing."
"I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study."
"There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act."
"Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles."
"I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days."
"An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more."
"For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate."
"I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around."
"Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied."
"It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all."
"I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now."
"In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low."
"I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags."
"Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?"
"The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor."
"I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket."
"The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul."
"I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself."
"Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student."
"It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life."
