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Your Quotes for 31 August 2005 - Students

As Back to School Week continues at Quotes of the Day, we've picked quotes on Schools and Teachers. That's where it's done and who's doing it. Today we'll do Students, that is, who it's being done for. Or who it's being done to, in some cases.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
     - Jacob Bronowski, 1908 - 1974

[Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains.... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
     - Jesse Louis Jackson

Experience has no text books nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer to her roll-call personally.
     - Minna Thomas Antrim

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
     - Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906 - 1992

The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.
     - Stephen Neill

A University without students is like an ointment without a fly.
     - Ed Nather, professor of astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

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