The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
Japan is a country that works well. The trains, buses, and planes stick to their timetables. When you try to change the schedule of anything, it can confuse.
Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, 'Gay pride, white power!' just to confuse people.
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.
I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.
It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.
The horse needs to respect you, but sometimes people confuse respect & fear. And they're not the same at all.
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times, they confuse VCs with their friends.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only supposed to be one God.
If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.
Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.
I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.
Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.
It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.
I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Jesus' philosophy in life seemed to be, "Let's confuse as many people for as long as we can". He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.
Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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