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 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men.  
 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men. 
 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school.  
 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school. 
 Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
 The fields his study, nature was his book.  
 Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,
 The fields his study, nature was his book. 
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and read more
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good read more
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired read more
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship read more
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it
 The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, 
their feet are cold, their heads are read more 
 The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, 
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without 
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, 
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they 
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and 
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society 
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of 
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, 
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize 
it.