Paul Hirst Quotes & Sayings

There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn. — Paul Q. Hirst

People simply don't make eye contact anymore. — Eric Kripke

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing. — Euripides

You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn't as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work.. — Mark Zuckerberg

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms. — Paul Q. Hirst

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. — Paul Q. Hirst

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. — Bernard-Henri Levy

I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures. — Henry Paulson

I raise an eyebrow, working to achieve the right tone of intellectual superiority. If you've never read the Twilight books or the Hunger Games series you wouldn't understand. Not. One. Bit. They are complex stories. Big words. Probably beyond you. — Anne Eliot

On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered with dry seaweeds, withered jelly-fishes, and a multitudinous life that gasped for the ocean: at last the cook washing throb of the great sea of bliss, whose fountain is the heart of God, had stolen upon her consciousness, and she knew that she lived. — George MacDonald

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it. — Jane Espenson

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge. — Guy Oseary

If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have crazy, fuzzy ideas about teaching, we will be likely to do crazy and fuzzy things in its name. — Paul Q. Hirst

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned — W. Somerset Maugham

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see. — Chris Crutcher