If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Research and development projects on educational media pay quantities of hard cash for development, lip-service to evaluation, and no attention to implementation.” — Diana Laurillard Copy Share Image
A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Learning often means changing the game board, not just learning fancier strategies on the same board with the same pieces.” — David N. Perkins Copy Share Image
“Teaching, is spiritual procreation! We must strive to spread knowledge and hand it down. For it is the ultimate goal of humanity.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Every teacher was once a student, so respect each student because it is always possible for an ordinary seed to become a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed… — Ednah Walters Copy Share Image
“This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education,… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“It's not the institution which makes its students famous but the students who achieve great heights make their institutions famous.” — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of… — Ted Morgan Copy Share Image
Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Poverty and crisis can mask a child's potential, but they can't determine it. And a zip code, definitely doesn't determine what kid… — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
There was something of the schoolteacher about Fabio Capello, which made him difficult to warm to, let alone talk to. He was… — Jimmy Bullard Copy Share Image
“Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years. — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
We do random acts of kindness all the time, but we wanted to leave a legacy for our whole family and just… — Mike Evans Copy Share Image
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image