Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where… — Steven James Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“They go out and visit the kinds of places they are learning about such as the county court system, the grocery store… — Fiona Whitney Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
People with education get out of the classroom as soon as they can and jump into administration or higher ed, there just… — Raheem Jarbo Copy Share Image
Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else… — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There is nothing Dickensian about a classroom that is a well-ordered, disciplined environment, where firm and fair teaching gives every child the… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
My first fragrance as a kid was Tommy Girl. It was amazing. Wasn't it the thing to wear? And then I remember… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image