I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study” — Cornell University Copy Share Image
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that… — Tricky Copy Share Image
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and… — Lakshmi Pratury Copy Share Image
You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
“That is why I'm not in favor of the UP today which is too big, because the standard goes down. The reason… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
Growing up in Sweden, musical education is something really special. There are music schools everywhere, and the education is very advanced. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you don’t need to talk a lot to… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“...we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative "that was inappropriate." These commands are vague and inefficient...Telling students what… — Doug Lemov Copy Share Image
“Don't fall into the habit of bringing work home, Rick. It indicates a lack of planning, and you would eventually find yourself… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“Being lawful and following the rules means allowing their reality to become your reality, and their reality includes you pledging your allegiance… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“As historian Theda Perdue and anthropologist Jack Campisi have noted separately, the closing of all-Indian schools created a crisis for southeastern Indians.… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had. — Matthew Morrison Copy Share Image
“Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.” — Ecclesiastes Copy Share Image
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me. — John Stockton Copy Share Image
Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“...although I'm eighty years old, I still consider myself a student. ... Every day learning, learning.” — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education. — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
“Is education today improving the economic wellbeing of humanity?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
