17 ordspråk av William Scott
William Scott
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| Especially our students serve as staff volunteers in their home town. |
| For a Classicist, one must learn to ask the questions in the way that a pagan society did. I think it's very important and tough for many of us who grew up in a Judeo-Christian society. |
| He is an excellent employee. |
| I feel I can't teach you anything, what I can do is organize some material that may seem wildly complex when you first take a look at it. I've been working at it for such a long time I can at least organize it. So you can go home and teach yourself how to get control of it... I could throw an act, I can tell jokes and try to be stimulating, I can organize the books. If you don't want to do it, I can't do anything about it. |
| I think it is important for us as teachers to offer a huge spread of courses from Plato, the deadest white male around, to very modern philosophy. |
| My thinking is they need more security here, like metal detectors. A knife shouldn't have been brought into school. |
| The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. |
| The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did. |
| The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about. |
| There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. |
| traveled around the world like a sheik. |
| Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. [During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos] |
| We all teach students a massive body of material to get some sort of mastery of it, pass a judgement, and defend it. |
| We rely on each other to get through. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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