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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. -- William Lyon Phelps
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs. -- Erin Gruwell
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. -- Philip Zimbardo
Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college. -- Kris Gopalakrishnan
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. -- Allen Tate
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. -- Louise Slaughter
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' -- David Harsanyi
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. -- Robert Morgan
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. -- William Glasser
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. -- Sonny Perdue
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. -- Frank Press
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. -- Arne Duncan
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. -- Dabney Coleman
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure. -- Natalie Goldberg
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt. -- Mark Pocan
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. -- Jim Hunt
I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did. -- Brendan Myers
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans. -- Peter Capaldi
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth. -- Alex Tabarrok
During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did. -- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown. -- Nikos Kazantzakis

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