“Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.” — Galina Nelson Copy Share Image
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You don't want an 18-year-old girl who's very talented thinking: 'I want to play for the first team but I've got to… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education.… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience.… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The largest and most rigorous study that is currently available in this area is the third one commissioned by the British Home… — David Lisak Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
“Moments later, confident but cautious, I stepped into my first classroom as Professor Ball. I couldn't have done it without the mentoring… — Joan Ball Copy Share Image
“He was proud to have come alone to America. To learn it, as he once must have learned to stand and walk… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves.I'm… — Common Copy Share Image
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just… — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
