“In a powerful demonstration of this, psychologist Lisa Blackwell and her colleagues showed seventh-grade students how the brain grows and makes new… — Jeremy A. Smith Copy Share Image
“To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim...… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Rosenthal went on to study precisely that – what expectation mean for our children. In one line of research he showed that… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Kids of the 1980s and 1990s have had a new, huge, financially catastrophic demand on their meager post-recession earnings, too: a trillion… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Every child is innocent and every child should be given a proper childhood which would result in having a fighting chance in… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Student debt in the US has exploded in the past decade. One of the reason is that the private costs of attending… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
“I read in the papers here a while back some teachers came across a survey that was sent out back in the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“We tend to forget that there’s nothing sacrosanct about learning in large group classrooms, and that we organize students this way not… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Who better to teach than the most capable among us? And I’m not just talking about seminars or formal settings. Our actions… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“He had first come into the house with her whom he loved. And Daisy was dressed in her bridal gown and wore… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Shutting the door, I look around and see clusters of groups all over the parking lot. Every school is different. You generally… — Heather Gunter Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
“But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad,… — Nandan Nilekani Copy Share Image
I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, 'Joe, I really… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“education is our basic right. Not just in the West; Islam too has given us this right. Islam says every girl and… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Students come away with a clear message about how admissions works: If you have money, connections or 'insider' knowledge, you have a… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of "leaners" and "lifters" is the central teaching of the right wing ideologue, Ayn Rand, who penned books like… — Anne Manne Copy Share Image
“Living in the age of the Internet and being a part of the information generation, we have unlimited access to an unprecedented… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“They know that as long as they keep us undereducated, or with an inferior education, it’s impossible for us to compete with… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and… — Umar Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with… — Esme Raji Codell Copy Share Image
