I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people don't believe me when I say the schools in much of the U.S. were closed for a year. If you… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Here’s how Andreas Schleicher, who directs those PISA tests, puts it: “The best way to find out whether what students have learned… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered… — Besa Kosova Copy Share Image
Molly wants to be a surgeon. She wants to get really good grades in her GCSEs so she's going to Ireland to… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
“[E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“And here it is that the teaching is needed: If you would enter into full fellowship with Christ in His death,and know… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
“I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've… — Bobby Roode Copy Share Image
And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices… — Clint Bolick Copy Share Image
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks,… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have a formal education, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school. And you only have so much time… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we’re not trees and flowers, and so many grade… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“How many people choose a course of study or career based on their parents’ expectations or the possibility of achieving a certain… — Wendy K. Walters Copy Share Image
I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything… — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
When I started my engineering, I had to support my education expenses; I was then studying in what is now the National… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image