Everybody says school sux its boring and they dont like it the only thing they like is their friends but if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The message I would give to young people is: Don't be the best in your class. If you're the best in your… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Post 10th grade, I came to the northern half of the country. I realized that the usual education did not excite me… — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
“Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
A college degree remains one of America's surest paths to well-paying, rewarding careers. But too many underserved students - especially students of… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
“The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the… — Plato Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“There was a centre to the religion: worship at the Jerusalem temple. Most Jews accepted the sacredness of the temple and the… — Lester L. Grabbe Copy Share Image
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“To those who say that we need weights and measures in order to enforce accountability in education, my response is, yes, of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
“[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by… — Henry Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the… — Abdoulaye Wade Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
“I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our students believe, rightfully so, that when they embark on their own journey to higher education, they too will have the freedom… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
“If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
We're going after these for-profit institutions preying on first-generation college kids and putting them in debt. And they don't even have the… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic… — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Everybody has a way to get to college. You study in high school, you do your work. There are always grants or… — Muggsy Bogues Copy Share Image
While I did complete high school, I would have to say that it was by the skin of my teeth. My education… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
“The study authors believe that when high achievers are primed to achieve excellence, the idea that a task is “fun” undercuts their… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Our history teacher had the most boring voice in the world and no teaching skils to speak of. Every single class, he… — Claire Farrell Copy Share Image
A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
“Common Core is rife with developmentally inappropriate cognitive tasks at K-6 levels – and especially at the K-3 level.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image