It is difficult to accept failure when you are a student. It is also difficult to succeed because everyone is so competitive! — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“Like virtually all schools for the deaf at that time, the Indiana State School emphasized oral skills: speaking and lipreading.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us… — Robert Updegraff Copy Share Image
Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I'd describe 'Born to Kill' as a 'study in psychopathy', it's very much in the heads of our main protagonist, Sam, a… — Daniel Mays Copy Share Image
“We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives,… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
If you do something to see if it works, and then it doesn't work, was that a valuable educational experience for you… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Of course now we know that couldn't be further from the truth, that the subjects that keep young people's options open and… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I… — Sasha Banks Copy Share Image
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching of honest national history is especially important, since the teaching of false, chauvinist history is the main vehicle for spreading… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
We made a commitment to the people of this state that we would focus on jobs, health and education. We made a… — Annastacia Palaszczuk Copy Share Image
I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform… — Shakira Copy Share Image
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were… — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.” — Montessori Maria Copy Share Image
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there.… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
