Congratulations to Courtney - I think it's just terrific that she has a chance to get the record. I know it's a cliche, but I'm just really glad I got to play at Monmouth College, and I'm glad that women are still going after those records there.
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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
There must be some people in Iowa that think the University of Iowa is like the minor league preparing people for their next step. I don't think that is saying anything disparaging about Iowa it just seems to be a good breeding ground in the eyes of search committees at more prestigious institutions.
It was a lot of constant eating in college, ... I'm growing into my body more, so it's not as bad. I eat what normal people eat - just more, and more often.
A family we're helping out has two girls in college, ... One's a pre-med student, and the other is enrolled in a nursing program. But their parents have no jobs, and they have no money in their pockets. We originally approached them about getting out of the shelter and into a hotel. But they said, What do we do then We have shelter here -- and free food. We don't have any money to buy food on our own.
One of the great things about the Southeastern Conference is our fans and our support -- the importance of college football. On occasion that exuberance goes over the top. What we'd ultimately like to do is channel it on the field.
In his Sept. 16 op-ed column, Solidarity Isn't Forever, ... breaking its promise to confine itself to economic issues and not inject itself into academic decision making, such as the assignment of teachers to particular courses.
We believe Devin would be better served by staying in school and finishing his degree and becoming more proficient as a football player. But we respect his decision.
I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel right at home with my kids here. I look at these kids like they are my kids. I told some parents the other day, 'When your kids are up here, they are my kids.
It makes it real tough, because we're a small school. We might have to dump some of our non-league games, because we play double-headers in league.
It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.
This is a great day for the university and the museum. It has been tough. We would have liked to make this announcement six months ago, but we had to get all the pieces together. We had to get the buy-in and cooperation of a lot of folks and that takes time.
The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
There are lots of planning opportunities in the timing of withdrawals to pay for college. For high school juniors, we're rebalancing to prepare for payout. For seniors, we may not plan payouts until the family has gotten their financial-aid package.
It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through the programming. The viewer learns through their experiences about what they're learning. Yes, it's entertainment, but it's really a program about going into the world of work.
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books.- Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots.
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Education doesn't end with graduation. The first position out of college should provide learning opportunities that will serve as building blocks for future career success.
Everyone wants to win their first game, and everyone wants it to be just like college, but it's not,
Defensively we're going to have a lot of size. It should be interesting to see - I think it's going to be a learning process - learn to play with each other, learn to play with the new rules, learn to play against other teams. There's all new teams everywhere, they haven't been passive and have been changing players left and right. For the first week it be interesting to see how we play against our traditional rivals because we're going to be playing them a lot.
We watched the Notre Dame tapes, and I brought them back in here at 7 p.m. on Sunday night and I personally gave them a scouting report on Ohio University, and that was it,
I hate Rusty Wallace. Oh, sorry. I can't get that out of my blood. What I meant to say is that Jimmie Johnson is a cheater. I was nose-to-tail with the No. 48 car for much of the day, and, using the knowledge obtained in my engineering studies at Purdue University, I was able to pinpoint several violations. For example, using only the naked eye, I could tell that the rear spoiler was 132 of an inch too high, and the inspection sticker on his license plate had clearly expired.
Cormier has looked good every time out. He's got control of four pitches, and he's got some experience -- he pitched in college and pitched in the Majors. He's a good pickup for us.
We should work together in every opportunity we get, ... If that's their plan, I hope they can step in. There are kids in the school system who live in the city.
Those are wonderful, but they cost lots of money. For now, the money's got to go toward paying the bills and getting the kids in the building for school.
The Deakin editor James McConville has spent a lot of time talking up his review and talking down other law schools,
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
I just thought it was a tremendous NCAA championship for the women's program and Rutgers University.
It's just fun to go home and watch your old school. I still got some guys that I played with that are still there. Plus, I'm a fraternity guy. I go back and see the guys.
Instead of programming a keyboard, mouse and screen, a Java programmer can program something that fits in the palm of their hand. Instead of reading mouse clicks, the sensors are reading hand waves and light changes.
Most doctors I've had here don't have a lot of knowledge about sickle cell. I want to help educate my community on the disease the way I was educated.
All of the schools, and the district name, are based on the Mohawk Indian language because that's the tribe that (historically) roamed these plains.
This (loss) really doesn't sting. But it's a learning process for us. We learned that when we allow a team to play harder than us, this can happen. We understand why we lost this ball game. We had so many defensive lapses. We'll regroup, go back to the drawing board, and come back Tuesday with a better effort than we had tonight.
Last month, Anthony Lane, former boy newspaper editor, a literary scholar, and now dean of American film critics, wrote 6,200 words in The New Yorker describing how every now and then, one finds a fellow-Keesian. ... We are led ad infinitum to the Golden Gate, and to the empty Plymouth to what did or did not happen next, and so to the reflection, as in a rearview mirror, of all that had come before.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.
It's very difficult to schedule anytime you're a 5A school, especially when people know you have a solid team. At the time, we thought it was going to be a solid schedule, not overpowering.
Michael Barr, lead instructor at the University of Southern California's aviation safety program, said that an extra few hundred feet in which to slow down could make the difference between a minor incident and a fiery accident. You just don't put a gully at the end of a runway, ... You've got to have a safety zone.
Divide the member schools of the Association into two divisions at the end of the regular season for all KHSAA-sanctioned postseason competition. Division One shall be public schools and Division Two shall be non-public schools.
I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
High school students are in for a real treat. Chefs in the City(TM) is going to be full of challenging and innovative opportunities for students to showcase their talents, learn more about careers in the culinary and pastry arts and talk to some exceptional industry guests. The language and business of food can translate into some fun and rewarding careers.
Since my first day here 21 years ago, he's the guy I've turned to whenever I've needed something. George is really the heart and soul of Waterville High School. He's really a role model for everybody of how a man should be.
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
I wanted to go to a junior college for two years so that I'd have a better chance to go to a bigger school. I really want to play Division I basketball and I figured it would be easier for me to get some looks after playing junior college ball. Coach Crick is a really nice guy and easy to get along with.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100.
You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
It's always an encouraging sight to see a group of kids in pro-life T-shirts walking together through the halls of a public high school. That puts it all together the right to life for every human being in this country is just as fundamental as the right to free speech. And that's the message we hope to send with American Life League's National Pro-life T- shirt Day.
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.