Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say… — Skepta Copy Share Image
[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion.… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open… — Dan Rosensweig Copy Share Image
My father announced early on that he didn't want his sons to be "country club bums." And for a number of reasons,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
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We've made a huge effort globally and in the US, in getting kids jobs. This is one piece. The South Bronx and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
“When you go to high school, and you're trying to figure yourself out, sometimes it takes doing things that you don't like… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No… — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in… — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
What you're experiencing now [on "MasterChef," on "Junior"] is what life's going to be like for the next four, five decades. You're… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what would be a really, really great project for all of us. Why don't we start mentoring kids?… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
One of the good things that's happening in manufacturing in Mexico is that the old maquiladora that was relegated to just assembling… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
All kids are different, even when they come from you and theoretically have the same culture. Some of my kids had been… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team… — David Chang Copy Share Image
To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting… — Roy Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image