"The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them."

-- Harry Wong

#Respect Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Successful Quotes

“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.”
“This place is like crazy on crackers.”
“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
“Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think”

Source : "Nick cannon flexing his mogul muscle in hollywood" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2005.
“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.”
“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”
“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”

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