My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars. — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“Focus on winning people over and teaching (rather than winning arguments). Recognize” — David Akadjian Copy Share Image
We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both. — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
You know our education system has problems when Hallmark comes out with a new line of Easy-to-read graduation cards. — James Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.” — Allen Guy Wilcox Copy Share Image
I want to do roles that provoke us to think differently or realise ourselves in a new light. Characters of women who… — Lisa Haydon Copy Share Image
We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power… — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
“If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong",… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“...the notion of the classroom as an intellectual community gets lost when conference rooms by the principal's office are turned into data… — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
When people learn that I'm a qualified primary school teacher, I'm often met with surprise and a list of questions, including, 'How… — Sinead Burke Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
“The spirit of nationality is no better than the spirit of caste. Nationality has sentiment, pride, and fanaticism for its basis, and… — M.S.S. Pandian Copy Share Image