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school offering research
...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are. David Christian
school people community
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. Alice Hoffman
school heart broken
Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn Andy Partridge
school catholic generations
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote. Cillian Murphy
school discipline hated
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. Alfie Allen
school horror testing
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. Alfie Kohn
school sacrifice what-matters
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores. Alfie Kohn
school kids differences
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen. Alfie Kohn
school house tests
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. Alfie Kohn
character honor foundation
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer
character
I like to take a character and develop it Alison Lohman
character men actors
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. Alfred Molina
character writing target-audience
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you. Alex Borstein
character fighting self
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. Aldous Huxley
character fate reality
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque. Albert Einstein
character community produce
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community. Albert Einstein
character race ideas
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God. Albert Einstein
character greatness difficult-questions
Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions. Albert Einstein