Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market… — Pankaj Ghemawat Copy Share Image
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. — William Westney Copy Share Image
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long Copy Share Image
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In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be… — Gaston Caperton Copy Share Image
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community -… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
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For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
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