"We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo."
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"I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never."
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"I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough."
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"I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them."
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"I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail."
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"As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful."
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"There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?"
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"'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films."
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"I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong."
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"The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student."
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"The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present."
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"Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio."
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"I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system."
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"The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained."
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"I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from."
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"I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear.""
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"Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere."
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"I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work."
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"True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil."
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"I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there."
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