For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that… — Paul Popenoe Copy Share Image
A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ups teach you something and when you fail in trying to do something... that also teaches you something. I have been… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
When I announced my Strong Start, Strong Finish education initiative, I made clear my desire to give Alabamians the best opportunities possible… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way… — Dan John Copy Share Image
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
Girls need to start looking for guys who have goals, ambitions, and an education because 10 years from now swag isn't going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out… — Sara Dormon Copy Share Image
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit. — David Robinson Copy Share Image
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. — Marvin Bower Copy Share Image
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image