Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine.… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Its your decision, Simon Lewis," said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, study music, get married. Live your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, explored these so-called expert predictions in a landmark twenty-year study, which he published… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“My grandmother didn’t study plant biology or agriculture. She didn’t even finish high school. But she knew that she could get a… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“you practice elaboration, there’s no known limit to how much you can learn. Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning… — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“It’s good and just that you practice on teachers and school principals, because one day you are going to have to live… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“I will believe in students' competence and intelligence. I will keep faith...that they have stories to tell, things to explain, and the… — Randy Bomer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Today, there are two worlds that use the word education with opposite meanings: One world consists of the schools and colleges (and… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“Critics may find this hard to believe, but students in American public schools today are studying and mastering far more difficult topics… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and… — David J. Skorton Copy Share Image
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by… — E.D. Hirsch Jr Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“In popular modern usage, the word grimoire refers specifically to a set of medieval European magickal texts (notebooks, journals, and teaching aids)… — Aaron Leitch Copy Share Image
I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“...the teacher picked a flower and said: ‘Look at the pretty flower, Betty.’ Betty, filled with spiritual radiance, said, ‘All the flowers… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me,… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St.… — Jack Ramsay Copy Share Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the… — William James Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
