Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The world keeps trying to teach you how to be you, but really all that needs to happen is for you to… — T Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the… — Eric Mazur Copy Share Image
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Initially, she responded by turning inward, pondering questions about the meaning of life and her place in the world. This led her… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Without those experiences in higher education I wouldn't have been able to do this job. It taught me a more holistic approach… — Graham Potter Copy Share Image
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“A different kind of list entirely is Colleges That Change Lives, a short list bearing the names of only forty very small… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my… — John Barth Copy Share Image
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
“In contrast to most of the existentialist schools of thought, logotherapy is in no way pessimistic; but it is realistic in that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Through educational programs, community engagement and legislative efforts, players, owners and the NFL are working with law enforcement, advocacy groups and legislators… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
“The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without… — Jim White Copy Share Image
Kindness is an open communication between heart to heart and not required to be learned by searching, teaching or even preaching as… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“I pray this new year will be greater, smooth and brings best aroma to our smelling, normal burning for toothpicks, blue colours… — oladosu feyikogbon Copy Share Image
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“What for?!” squalled Eddie. “I wasn’t doin’ nothin’!” So much for Mrs. Perkins the English teacher at Littlepage Elementary.” — Shannon Hill Copy Share Image