When a very tough, old school leader announced that I was his pick to be Chief of Station in a small but… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
8 year old young girl came up to me when I went to speak at an elementary school, and she gave me… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
If you call 'Rapper's Delight' an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a child’s life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people and places, he will learn. When he feels safe… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I started school in the autumn term of 1949 when there was a tomato glut. We had tomatoes in every form known… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for… — George Weah Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche, Heidegger also gave up on the prospect that schools and universities would nurture the kind of reflective openness to the… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I was quite... feminine. Not in my actions, in my ways. If one of my uncles had trouble at school, they'd go… — Tricky Copy Share Image
My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I am really close to my mum. She always made me do my school and make sure I got all my grades.… — Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“When I first entered the school, I was all set to tie my hair in a ponytail, get a fake tan, and… — Jennifer Allison Copy Share Image
I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school.… — Jacob Artist Copy Share Image
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was 15 when Hugo Chavez came to power in 1998. At the time, I lived in Vargas State, which borders the… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes… — Francesca Jackson Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel… — Linda Vester Copy Share Image