"Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student."
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"I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money."
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"My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time."
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"You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes."
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"We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being."
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"It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live."
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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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"The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves."
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"I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student."
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"Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student."
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"College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups."
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"Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time."
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"Love, too, has to be learned."
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"Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth."
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"In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise."
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"At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it."
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"There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder."
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"Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within."
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"What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke."
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"I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students."
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