At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism.… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there.… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do… — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns… — Roland G. Fryer Jr Copy Share Image
Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
“My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think before you answer the questions". I am… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not… — Uma Bharti Copy Share Image
We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an… — Michael Reeves Copy Share Image
At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image