Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Then there are families for whom education was not the focus at all. Instead children were expected to go into the family… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
“In a study in 1995, Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas found that children in professional families heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing inherently evil in the process of making money, and the notion is illogical, but that is one of the… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing.… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And… — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We study the character's education and social experience, their likes, dislikes and places they have lived. How they speak, and so on.… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“Gerontologists studying the aging process find increasing evidence that most of us will age with a fair degree of success. There’s far… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Now, if you take such an unbalanced approach, then that means you are going to be gutting our investments in schools and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“understand better the world in which it was born and how inextricably connected it was to that world; to appreciate the wonder… — Richard Elliott Friedman Copy Share Image
Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize… — Edgar Morin Copy Share Image
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“No claims were made by him [Buddha] to any unalterable truth, nor did he demand that his teachings should simply be accepted,… — Durden Smith Copy Share Image
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“To go for liberal arts meant becoming that vague, mysterious entity, a 'liberal arts type'--the kind of person who in all likelihood… — Shotaro Yasuoka Copy Share Image
I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it… — Liam Tancock Copy Share Image
As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Public discourse degenerated. There's no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“...the notion of the classroom as an intellectual community gets lost when conference rooms by the principal's office are turned into data… — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately,… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When people learn that I'm a qualified primary school teacher, I'm often met with surprise and a list of questions, including, 'How… — Sinead Burke Copy Share Image
Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in… — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image