Just as good schools need strong headteachers, so good governments need strong prime ministers. — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show… — Mark Martin Copy Share Image
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. — Melinda Harmon Copy Share Image
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced… — Severo Ochoa Copy Share Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“Whether we believe in Jesus, whether we approve of his teaching, let alone whether we like the look of the movement that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“All this intelligent and careful work revealed a man of great forethought. Yet you could see in Mr. Wicks's eyes--as he stood… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We should teach our kids that they're blessing and not a burden and that they're valuable beyond what they can imagine -… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
“Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of sociologists and popular… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
