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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active. -- Amartya Sen
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. -- Kamala Harris
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. -- Cesar Milstein
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. -- John Searle
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. -- Yaya DaCosta
However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students. -- Aaron Klug
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. -- Barack Obama
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24. -- John Shelby Spong
The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators. -- Michelle Grabner
If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time. -- Tom Rath
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about. -- Madeleine Albright
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue. -- Joseph Stiglitz

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