Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world.… — Gustav Nossal Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize… — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject… — Kenneth Ring Copy Share Image
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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