Studying Literature Quotes

• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

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  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional   Skills   Choices  

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Purpose   Literature   Mould  

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• I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

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  Ilona Andrews

  Girl   Giving Up   Vampire  

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• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

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  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Drinking   Learning   Hygiene  

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Book   Literature History   Civilization  

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• My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.

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  Garth Greenwell

  College   Years   Musician  

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Respect   Book   Healing  

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• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

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  Philip Pullman

  Reading   Years   Oxford  

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• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

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  Barbara Tuchman

  Book   Civilization   Literature History  

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Reality   Doe   Add  

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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  Barbara Tuchman

  Stupid   Book   Reading  

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

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  Shane Warren Jones

  Believe   Soul   Literature  

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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