“The balance of our world frequently is seen as a question of power. If I have more power and more knowledge, more… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“In America, criminal justice policies have become a second line of defense, if you will, against individuals whose development has not been… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
When I talk about how we're going to pay for education, how we're going to invest in infrastructure, how we're going to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
“Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think there's a perfect pattern, further reading and study reveal an exception. Whenever I want to say "only" or "always",… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing a person can reach his or her goals by taking shortcuts because it is considered as one… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to… — Ellen Rowland Copy Share Image
“All of this is good but great teachers engineer learning experiences that maneuver the students into the driver's seat and then the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise no… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the… — Zhores Alferov Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Documentary facts of works applying the Teachings of Grigori Grabovoi in the field of technology, business, macro-level salvation, implementation and improvement of… — Grigori Grabovoi Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A learning man is a succeeding man, abounding in greatness. A man or doctor who is not learning will be a dangerous… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard,… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
We called our research 'Getting to Equal - How Digital is Helping to Close the Gender Gap at Work.' And at its… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“Getting an education is a running leap towards becoming filthy rich in Asia. This is no secret. But like many desirable things,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“A close study of the southern newspapers fails to show that the bloomer craze has gained any decided hold south of the… — Mike H. Mizrahi Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I hurled myself into the study of my subject with renewed fervor, able to see the dry facts and arid descriptions in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that your life’s work will be found by studying at a university, college, or other educational institute. Knowledge is… — Michael Hetherington Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
“It was not the first time I had encountered on university campuses ignorance of Hayek and other conservative intellectuals, nor was it… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image