The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the… — Carles Puyol Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch… — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking.… — Marilyn Jager Adams Copy Share Image
Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the… — Daphne Koller Copy Share Image
What I really want are students who want to partner with other people, to be part of an organization and to influence… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of… — DeLoss Dodds Copy Share Image
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else… — David Shuster Copy Share Image