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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation."
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"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."
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"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
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"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."
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"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
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"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
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"There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing."
Quality
"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
Teaching
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
Education
"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
Education
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
Change
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
Work
"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
Democracy
"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
Knowledge
"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
Education
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
Education
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