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Letter "E" » Examinations
«If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education»
Author: Edward Everett
(Educator, Orator)
| About:
Education,
Study
| Keywords:
admitted, devoted, Examinations, This Boy, withdraw
«In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr.
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Examinations
«Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.»
«An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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«One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems dis»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Study
| Keywords:
cram, deter, deterred, deterring, Dis, examination, Examinations, final examination
«In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Fool,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
answer, Any Questions, ask, ask for it, ask in, Examinations, foolish, out of the question, questions, wise, wised, wise up
«To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat»
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