“[I]nfatuation with characters still pervades American classrooms and holds back essential improvement in instruction.”

— John DeFrancis

"The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform" (2006, p. 25) http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_reform.pdf
"The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform" (2006)

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American linguist 1911–2009

Yahia Lababidi (1973)

Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)

“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.”

John R. Leopold (1943) politician

Hometown Annapolis - County Executive Leopold's FY08 Budget Address http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/05_02-02/TOP

“Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

"Obama: Putin is slouchin’" in The Washington Post (9 August 2013) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2013/08/09/obama-putins-a-sloucher/
2013

“Hold back the river
Let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river
So I can stop for a minute and see where you hide
Hold back the river, hold back”

James Bay (1990) British singer-songwriter

Hold Back the River
Lyrics

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

Jean Giraudoux The Trojan War Will Not Take Place

Tiger at the Gates (1935)

“I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Yet, despite my retentive memory, I found it impossible to recite when I went back into the classroom.”

Richard Wright book Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

On being brought back to life, during the period in which he considered putting his body into cryonic suspension, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 130

“Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses.”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

As quoted in I. Milletlerarası Gençlik Kongresi [First International Youth Congress] (1988) by Selçuk University, p. 19
Context: Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

“Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.”

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron

The King v. Inhabitants of St. Paul's, Bedford (1797), 6 T. R. 454.

“I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.”

Ian McEwan book Enduring Love

Source: Enduring Love

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