“Fear, boredom, and resistance--they all go to make what we call stupid children.” — John Holt Copy Share Image
Coming out of high school I was really given everything, never really had to work for anything. — Dion Waiters Copy Share Image
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
“to teach is the best way to learn, but that the imperfect are the best teachers of the imperfect.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids! — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high… — Jane D. Hull Copy Share Image
It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Life and time are the two best teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
“Placing young people in dynamic situations, involving multiple interests and without a simple solution, is a catalyst for the development of critical… — Trevor Gardner Copy Share Image
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
