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High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open… — Chungliang Al Huang Copy Share Image
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out,… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore.… — Dileep Rao Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Humor can be a great way to lift spirits and relate with soon-to-be high school grads. Whether you're in need of a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the… — Wilbert J. McKeachie Copy Share Image
War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.' 'Ninety… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you… — Guido Calabresi Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The… — Philip Green Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic… — William Bradley Bryant Copy Share Image
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image