“Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let's just say I get along well with the youngsters. Working with them energises me, and I find that I have a… — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching. — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
“For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have… — Neda Aria Copy Share Image
I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him.… — Ted King Copy Share Image
“This is my worst fear. It’s not keeping my students safe from terrorists, it’s knowing what to do when the Chaplain comes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“According to the Pew study, our collective list of concerns goes like this: the economy, jobs, terrorism, Social Security, education, energy, Medicare,… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“Have you ever started to learn something and thought after a very short while that you already know this stuff? Have you… — Erland Bakke Copy Share Image
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“intellectual symbol of the development of the American Educational system under the 1862 Morrill Act of Abraham Lincoln” — Clinton R. LeFort Copy Share Image
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Religion has no major relevance for the teachings of the Noble Eightfold Path. It might even act as a distraction. At its… — Christopher Titmuss Copy Share Image
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options… — Kangna Ranaut Copy Share Image
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature… — John Searle Copy Share Image
For wealthy or privileged students, applying to Ivy League schools or elite schools is sort of expected of them. If you go… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“Because the rapture teaching has been promoted so heavily in our society, even outside the church, a rumor has circulated that some… — Steve Wohlberg Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
