Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things… — Mark Lepper Copy Share Image
I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and… — Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz Copy Share Image
“As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
“That educators who have repeatedly failed to do what they are hired to do, and trained to do, should take on sweeping… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Careful in what and how you are learning. Professors specialize in “teaching” knowledge – They do not specialize in organization and application… — Scott Abel Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I don’t want you to just be my tutor. I want you to be the girl I look for in the halls… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
“They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“The best growth is aided by community. Yes, we teachers should study our craft vigorously. We should take classes. We should attend… — Matthew R. Kay Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“As educators, as scholars — really, as readers — contested engagement is an important part of our work. We must engage with… — Leigh Patel Copy Share Image
“Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
“The longer teachers teach, the better they are at their practice. That practice may serve to empower students or it may break… — Christopher Emdin Copy Share Image
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“SCHOOL IN AMERICA was easy, assignments sent in by e-mail, classrooms air-conditioned, professors willing to give makeup tests. But she was uncomfortable… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots.… — Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“You will always be my teachers, just as much or more than I am yours. Do not think – nor let anyone… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I played sports. The acting thing was just a direct blessing from the Lord, because I lost my discipline to play sports,… — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
“Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
