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"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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"The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the minds of my RAF hearers this perspective simply did not exist. It seemed to me that they did not really believe that we have any reliable knowledge of historic man. But this was often curiously combined with a conviction that we knew a great deal about Prehistoric Man: doubtless because Prehistoric Man is labelled "Science" (which is reliable) whereas Napoleon or Julius Caesar is labelled as "History" (which is not."
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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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"Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men."
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"If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated."
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"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."
Family
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Past
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
Education
"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Research
"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."
Education
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Life
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