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I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
“ Tout homme qui reçoit une éducation libérale compte aujourd'hui la chimie parmi les objets les plus indispensables de ses études. Everyone… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
“Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
“Broad-Based Education: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy… — George Beahm Copy Share Image
“Lori says, “Look at this. Your SATs are in the 600s. And you have a 3.8 average this semester. That’s really good.”… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
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My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know -… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“..:Being a good kid in a bad circumstance, quite an experience. Infact, bad things happened to good people. Yet, what's of importance… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education… — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning. Having open-minded conversations with believable people… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Beyond even any teaching, though, the aspect of spiritual life that is the most profound is the element of grace. Grace is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
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Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, the advice I'd give to the 1 percent today is: Harden your hearts. When invited to consider proposals to reduce inequality… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image