When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the… — Barbara M. White Copy Share Image
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. — Bjork Copy Share Image
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads… — Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Copy Share Image
In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“education of children is not synonymous with herdlike drilling and training. If education should really mean anything at all, it must insist… — Various Copy Share Image
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Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by… — salvador dalí Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
“Qualitative system dynamics is a powerful tool to help categorize behaviors as endogenous or exogenous with respect to the system under study.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers.… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge.… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
“A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The standard pace is for chumps. The system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than ‘just anyone’ — you… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to complete a systematic study of cognitive development. He introduced us to the idea that children… — Clare Landrigan Copy Share Image
What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
There is nothing your child is going to learn right now at the age of 10 that is going to make or… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change. — Audrey McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or… — Barbara D. Bateman Copy Share Image
To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
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