Quotes About Syllabus

#1. I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.

Jerry Pinto

#2. No, but it was a close call. Brought you something."
"Turtle pee?"
Cam laughed and shook his head as he reached into his backpack. "Sorry to let you down, but no." He pulled out papers stapled together. "It's a syllabus. I know. Thrilling shit right here.

J. Lynn

#3. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

Laura Mullen

#4. Our teacher [Ms. Whitlock] assesses me, then continues to summarise our syllabus.

Katie McGarry

#5. They put exclusively black history in the syllabus. Is there a difference between a black history of the world and a proper history? They say children must read black novels. Does a novel have a skin colour?

Imraan Coovadia

#6. The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

W.W. Sawyer

#7. Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers.

Sudha Murty

#8. At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

Kelly Reilly

#9. I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Susan Orlean

#10. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

Camille Paglia

#11. Life is not contained in a syllabus and everyone should be ready to face "Out Of Syllabus" situations!

V. Rajesh

#12. The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

Maria Montessori

#13. When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

#14. Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me - both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore -

Penny Reid

#15. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

Robert Bellarmine

#16. Economists and psychologists get confused when they are asked 'out of syllabus' questions by life!

Saurabh Sharma

#17. There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

A.S. Byatt

#18. Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

Salman Rushdie

#19. I am a man who did not enjoy poetry until I heard a woman recite it. And in that desert she dragged her university days into our minds to describe the stars. That night I fell in love with a voice.

Michael Ondaatje

#20. For some reason he thinks of Diane in her unbecoming red ski jacket and decides that her life is her life, there is not much use worrying about it. And he thinks of his wife, pretending to laugh at the television. Her quietness.

Alice Munro

#21. Some people got vicious Dobermans. I got a shaved attack poodle in a black sweater. His tough, spawn-of-hell image had taken a fatal blow, but at least he would be warm.

Ilona Andrews

#22. The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

John Barrasso

#23. The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Michelle Bachelet

#24. The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
[Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Horace

#25. For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

Haile Gebrselassie

#26. We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Bill Hybels

#27. It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

Lykke Li

#28. Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

Michiel Huisman