Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On the first day of school, I tell all my students to rip up their textbooks, and then I leave before their… — Victoria Beryl Zelinski Copy Share Image
That is what we should be doing: liberating everyone's potential, whether it's a self-made individual, whether it's someone taking the university route,… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
“This collection propose that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new and generative lens for literary and cultural study.” — Ruth O. Saxton Copy Share Image
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“Alas!' replied Maître Mouche, 'she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“It is often said that the Buddha’s teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed… — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
Americans are our greatest national resource and we need to invest in them through infrastructure, education, and a competitive tax system that… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite… — Shanola Hampton Copy Share Image
As for free education, universal medical care and other basic rights: Yes, people have to fight! Of course they have to. Free… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody I am interested in doing business with is a fundamentalist in terms of the approach to teaching. — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
My parents both made it to ninth grade and then dropped out, so I just want to have that higher education so… — Tecia Torres Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
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