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Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
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The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
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Now every idiot from high school's like, 'I'm back!' We weren't supposed to meet again. Stop poking me and inviting me to… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
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Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I work incredibly hard, and I would say the nature of being an actor involves a lot of studying. Every time you're… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
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...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim:… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
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![“[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.” quote by George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/george-carlin-155_1930s_on-school-uniforms-don-t-these-schools-d_1318367.jpg)
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