I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Books are great, but travel is the greatest teacher. If you have a choice, choose to travel. Not everywhere you go will… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“We teachers are all boxers. We get hit a lot. I've been knocked down so many times I'm often woozy. But I've… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how… — Roberto Carlos Copy Share Image
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class.’ I was like,… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor.… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As secretary of education, a parent, and a former teacher and principal, I've seen that no matter a parent's political leaning, their… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image