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Letter "S" » students
«It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.»
«Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case.»
«It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.»
Author: Edsger Dijkstra
(
Scientist)
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Keywords:
basic,
exposure,
mutilate,
mutilated,
practically,
prior,
programmer,
programmers,
programming,
regeneration,
students
«It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it»
«It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts?it is to teach them to think.»
«It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.»
«I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.»
Author: Bill Gates
(
Entrepreneur,
Founder)
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About:
Ability
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Keywords:
abilities,
incredible,
neat,
neater,
pursue,
reinforce,
reinforced,
reinforces,
reinforcing,
start-off,
students
«In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .»
Author: Bill Maher
(
Actor,
Comedian,
Producer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
football,
football team,
gay,
half time,
Harvey,
Harvey Milk,
high school,
milk,
New York,
students,
team,
The New York Times,
York
«I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(
Astronomer,
Scientist,
Writer)
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About:
Enthusiasm
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Keywords:
amazed,
capability,
college,
college student,
elementary,
elementary school,
students,
youngster,
youngsters
«I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
administrator,
administrators,
bushes,
college,
college student,
encourage,
sniff,
sniffed,
sniffing,
sniffs,
students,
territories,
territory,
urinate,
urinating,
walls