584 Quotes About Students




  • Author Lisa Delpit
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    We all mouth the mantra "All children can learn." I would modify the chant to "All children do learn." It’s just that some of them learn that we expect them to be successful, and some learn from us that they are dumb. Whatever we believe, they learn.

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  • Author W.E.B. Du Bois
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    The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.

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