#students

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear. ↗

— John Corigliano

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. ↗

— Barack Obama

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. ↗

— Frank Press

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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. ↗

— Hilda Solis

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#cultures #different #different cultures #evaluate #institutions

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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