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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Bill Moyers

Teacher, Thought, Learned

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
Pranab Mukherjee

Life, Education, Science

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
Sandra Cisneros

Sometimes, Another, Learn

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
Jim Clyburn

Science, Child, While

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
Ben Nicholson

Important, Mean, Able

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
John Astin

Work, Read, Bible

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.
Ruben Hinojosa

Important, Child, Act

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
Jacob Lew

Family, Health, Job

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Christopher Parker

Free, Theatre, Worked

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius

Friend, Down, Sweet

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Politics, Before, Union

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
Paul D. Boyer

Government, President, Class

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
Sandra Oh

Work, Mean, Career

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Experience, Wrong, Schools

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Alan Dundes

Forward, Become, Learn

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Alan Dundes

Learn, Whole, She

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Miroslav Vitous

Knowledge, School, Father

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
Andy Hertzfeld

School, Apple, Suddenly

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
Stokely Carmichael

Power, Black, Rights

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
Ma Jian

Book, Far, Year

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
Paul Graham

Someone, Before, Start

When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
Paul Graham

Bad, Idea, Social

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.
Ric Keller

Help, Important, Someone

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
Bharati Mukherjee

Time, Wedding, Father

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
James Meade

Parents, Her, She

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.
Arne Duncan

Technology, Help, Important

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
Arne Duncan

Parents, Support, Growth

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
James S. Coleman

School, Wanted, Star

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham

Great, Often, Last

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
Amartya Sen

College, Community, Active

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