"Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats."

-- Marian Bantjes

#Teacher Quotes #Real Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.”
“Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.”
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
“When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.”

Source : "National Broadcast Exclusive: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Speaks From Exile". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 10, 2005.
“It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
“When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.”
“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”
“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.”

Source : "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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