“those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Someone has said,”Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.”..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Hollywood films and television documentaries, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Traditional public schools are bad; their supporters are apologists for… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight,… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“And everything we know about time, everything we can know about time, comes from the study of clocks. Time, Clocks and Relativity… — Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is common practice in many countries, such as U.S.A., Denmark and Holland, for different sections of society to set up their… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“As for these three students, they've obviously performed at a level beyond that expected by first semester students in order to help… — Ian Isaro Copy Share Image
“Education is our right, I said. Just as it is our right to sing. Islam has given us this right and says… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Education has nothing to do with it. Long before I was born, the secret had found its way into the possession of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Modern education does no favour to the children it is supposed to teach when it de-emphasizes facts; although facts are not the… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Barcelona is the best education possible. Training with Messi is something I will never forget - he was always the last off… — Adama Traore Copy Share Image
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
“In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and… — Ann Romines Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“However, not only are fortunes equal in America, equality extends to some degree to intelligence itself. I do not think that there… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“but what is it you wanted to learn from the teachings and teachers, and those who taught you so much, what could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is a way of living life, a mode of being religious that causes destruction wherever it appears. It is the misinterpretation… — Michael Hardin Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap?… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Momo would have been delighted, except that most of the newcomers had no idea how to play. All they did was sit… — Michael Ende, Momo Copy Share Image
“What did you learn today?” “What mistake did you make that taught you something?” “What did you try hard at today?” You… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image