As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“There was a centre to the religion: worship at the Jerusalem temple. Most Jews accepted the sacredness of the temple and the… — Lester L. Grabbe Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“To those who say that we need weights and measures in order to enforce accountability in education, my response is, yes, of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades;… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If singing weren't happening, then yeah, I definitely would still be working hard at karate. I already have some teaching diplomas in… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
I spent an incredible amount of time during my teaching career serving on committees. I now regard the lion's share of the… — John E Ferling Copy Share Image
“It's not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
Quit worrying about the stupid things. You have 4 years to be irresponsible. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who… — Alex Sharp Copy Share Image
“The only modern presidents to really succeed in education (in limited ways) were Eisenhower and Johnson; the former, because he had very… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“It was from Andrews that I learned that practising the ‘St. Stephen’s College vision of education’ involves a dual vision – one… — Thampu Valson Copy Share Image
“My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
When you're going to school primarily for career purposes, it's more important to focus on which program is best for you. In… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“Whatever religious tradition you call your own, you will probably find religious diversity even within it. We can believe we mean the… — George Tyger Copy Share Image
“Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?' Taro asked. 'Friends who would betray you to your death. People in… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's time we start mixing rich children and poor children together in the classroom to both enrich their lives and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image