One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.” — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Give me a man with a heart for learning and Ill give you a proud nation. Give me woman with a modest,… — Rose Hathway Copy Share Image
But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Going through secondary school in Ireland, everyone's like, 'What are you gonna do when you finish school? Go to college? Study business?… — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
“This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form… — David F. Labaree Copy Share Image
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible… — Noel Whittaker Copy Share Image
English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the… — Bernhard Rust Copy Share Image
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries… — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
Girls and women are more likely to continue with their education if they feel the curriculum has some relevance to their own… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s,… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well;… — Tim Gallwey Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I learned a lot: sometimes you have to be patient. Sometimes you have to take care of your body. Sometimes you have… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids… — Gary Cohn Copy Share Image
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
