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
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
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
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'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
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
“People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend… — Mark Helprin 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
How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
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
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy,… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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
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
Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A beloved student of mine told me she believed the earth was approximately 6,000 years old. She was smart, she was thoughtful,… — Lauren Grodstein 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
I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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