I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident… — Vanessa Williams Copy Share Image
I got lucky. To be frank, I was surrounded by white teachers who never did the whole, 'You're never going to amount… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody’s bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn't think much about things, but she was… — Jesse Haubert Copy Share Image
Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Teachers have had a great effect on me as a child. I've always loved school and had a great appetite for learning.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I strongly believe that teachers need to tell students about great lives and make children understand their history and heritage. It is… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Our parents are the most invaluable teachers we have, and no matter how alien it might seem to ask them to enter… — Holly Branson Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I was born in Bala, North Wales, and was sent to a private tutor. I seem to remember walking to the tutor… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
How many of you have had a crush on a teacher? I mean, remember that Physics professor? Law One is so steamy,… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
“Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make… — Albio Sires Copy Share Image
My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Rachel looked annoyed. “Do you think he’s embarrassed by us?” “More likely he’s embarrassed by her,” said Gabriel. “She’s probably a stripper.”… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
