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41 " Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him " What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?" The Dharma teacher said, " About five thousand miles." The questioner said, " Is that all?" The Dharma teacher said, " Give or take a few miles." Later on, Soen-sa asked his student, " What do you think of these answers?" " Not bad, not good. But the dog runs after the bone." " How would you answer?" " I'd say, 'Why do you make a difference?' " Soen-sa said, " Not bad. Now you ask me." " What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?" " Don't you know?" " I'm listening." " Bodhidharma sat in Sorim for nine years. I am sitting here now." The student smiled. "
42 " Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down. “Sophia,” he asked. “Could you show me where it went in? I can’t find it.” “Right there,” she said throwing the other pearl in the river. "
― , For the Love of Sophia: Wisdom Stories from Around the World and Across the Ages
43 " The Porto Ricans at Harvard University believe that the crime was a horrible one and it should be punished, but death penalty would add to, and not detract from, its horrors,” the Harvard students wrote. One of the student signatures on the letter was by Pedro Albizu y Campos who would later become a Puerto Rican promoter of ideals for the island’s independence from the United States. "
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini , Antonio's Will
44 " The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio. "
― Edw. C, Youn
45 " Did he talk about silos?”“Of course he did,” I said. “We have to break down the silos that separate the academic side of the house from the Student Retention Office, apparently.”Emma wrinkled her nose. “Why is it a good thing to break silos? All that happens when you break a silo is that the grain spills out. Or the missile falls over. "
― Frankie Bow , The Musubi Murder (Professor Molly Mysteries, #1)
46 " In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions. "
― Philip Roth , The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
47 " We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it. "
48 " And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed. "
49 " Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month. "
50 " What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it! "
51 " What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly. "
52 " If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach. "
53 " I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. "
54 " Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery. "
55 " Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. "
56 " When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. "
57 " Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. "
58 " America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about. "
59 " Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally. "