I support high academic standards. Period.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be,…

— Rick Perry

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And…

— Daniel Goleman

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be…

— Jeb Bush

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting…

— John Dyer Baizley

With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching…

— Bill Gates

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the problems they…

— Lawrence Davidson

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been…

— James Elkins

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become…

— Walter Brueggemann

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is…

— James Paul Gee

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally…

— C. Everett Koop

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

— Felix Bloch

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most…

— Sheryl Sandberg