“to Tocqueville, and reiterated by Robert Bellah and collaborators in their landmark study of American life Habits of the Heart, this pursuit… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ran a lot of quick-strike concepts in high school just because from the University of Hawaii, a lot of guys that… — Marcus Mariota Copy Share Image
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What is love? Is it a lightning bolt that instantaneously unites two souls in utter infatuation and admiration through the meeting of… — Ivan Rusilko Copy Share Image
Indeed, the share of teachers in a union has fallen to less than half, driven in part by older, unionized teachers retiring,… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way… — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
My first official teaching job was at GIT, which was fantastic because I wanted to pay the rent and I got to… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.” — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since universities are funded in large parts by grants that depend on costly research, they have every incentive to free professors from… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To learn how to use a sword, one must first master when to use a sword.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“…Or he could choose life. At that pivotal moment, it occurred to him that with all his schooling in theology he had,… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
School is pointless! English? We speak it. History? They're dead, get over it. Math? We have calculators. Spanish? We have Dora. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image