Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“The need for Nigerian clerks and other subordinates to help man the colonial administration required creating a new class of African people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“believe absolutely in the truth and the teachings of the saints, and in the revelations of God; live your lives by that… — Ramesh Menon Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“Although you set your goal of getting a B, when your first exam score, worth 30% of your final grade is returned,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you KEEP WALKING, you will eventually get to your destination. Is your destination, to be a more godly man? Is your… — Dearlisa Copy Share Image
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“The sum and substance of the teachings and the achievements of Christ, which may have been interpreted as "miracles," were nothing more… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. What he's done for comedy… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart… — Josie Brown Copy Share Image
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing,… — Elizabeth Rusch Copy Share Image
Companies that do not actively practice, study, and plan for crisis communications - as well, of course, crisis management - are doomed… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In his teachings, Kongtrül Rinpoche demonstrates with uncompromising clarity how the identification with a solid self and the resulting feeling of self-importance… — Dzigar Kongtrül III Copy Share Image
“In my view the study of fairy origins assumes a greater degree of importance than popular opinion is wont to concede to… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions.… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a… — Lesley Conger Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
“The only solution was education, offering the chance of experiencing at first hand the land and traditions of their forebears and proving… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
We talk nonstop about what needs to be changed, and everyone has excuses for why the changes can't happen. I believe we… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
