“The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Knowledge cannot be passed, like some material substance, from one person to another. Thoughts are not things which may be held and… — John M Gregory Copy Share Image
This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“EVERY WEDNESDAY, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed… — Marian Bantjes Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift of education, Korya, is the years of shelter provided when learning. Do not think to reduce that learning to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teac...” “Teaching.” The kid nods. “Teaching. Right. That's a 'ch' sound. Suffering has been stronger… — Jon Cronshaw Copy Share Image
“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
“Without any particular discussion, the Gansey family in its entirety moved the conversation to the upstairs study, out of earshot. Although several… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities in our times. History repeats itself,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“The teaching that is all too common today is dangerous. The modern-day church service makes no distinction between saint and sinner. The… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises,… — Robert L. Fried Copy Share Image
“When I interviewed one of the mathematicians in the study, he asked me if I knew how to define a function. I… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you're not super bright… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the life-purpose of Jesus discovered by modern liberalism is not the life purpose of the real Jesus, but… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“After a few years of asking some very pointed questions in public teachings and in private counseling sessions, I began to see… — Yongey Mingyur Copy Share Image
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“In the past, I would’ve listed things such as common interests, mutual attraction, worldliness, and higher education. My freedom above all else.… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“To be frank, I think the elegant, long sentence is a thing of beauty, a self-contained entity worthy of study all by… — Charles Johnson Copy Share Image
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Great leaders in our study treated their people like partners in the organization. That meant they created for their people a sense… — Adrian Gostick Copy Share Image