#student

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #become #deeply #high #high school

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#goal #last #lifetime #provide #students

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#democracy #exert #god #i #move

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#already #believe #bring #consciousness #experiences

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#harvard #into #perfectly #plums #prunes

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#china #chinese #home #how #itself

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#either #government #history #i #improv

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#bar #council #even #high #high school