Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty. — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
“Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn.” — Ted Rubin author of Return on Relationship Copy Share Image
Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
“Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning,… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn,… — Donna Fargo Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“One of the study's authors, Dr. Lee Berk, is actually a humor researcher because, when you get right down to it, laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“The John Locke Foundation also sponsored the North Carolina History Project, which aimed to reorient the state’s teaching of its history by… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training)… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warriors life.” — Telamon of Arcadia Copy Share Image
Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience. — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning. — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image