“Maybe it was just Mr. Wilson's obvious love of the subject he taught. Maybe it was simply his cool accent and his… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“My sixth grade sex education class quickly came to mind, and I wondered why masturbation was discussed when addressing the adolescent male,… — Brooklyn James Copy Share Image
“For the Bible, despite all its contradictions and absurdities, its barbarisms and obscenities, remains grand and gaudy stuff, and so it deserves… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now,… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“The theory of behavior is useful to the life of man only as the index is useful to him who goes through… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Each adult viewed himself or herself as a stand-alone learning project. Now we see how powerfully the entire organization can leverage an… — Grant Lichtman Copy Share Image
“How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching,… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
My advice to young people everywhere: Choose schools that encourage self-discovery early on. Don't be afraid to buck convention. And when someone… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
“our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from… — John Goodlad 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
“Like the shaman, a teacher has to have a clear vision so that a student can come to believe that he or… — Louis Cozolino Copy Share Image
I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Today our society places great emphasis on specialization and focus. Students used to go off to university with the idea of broadening… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“A Christian goes to college to discover his vocation - and to develop skills necessary to occupy a section of cultural, intellectual… — JP Morelands Copy Share Image
“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“We do not "adore bread" (adoratio panis, d/oroAarpeta), because, according to Catholic teaching, the substance of bread is no longer present in… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Katya talked about how the Russian language is being destroyed by poor education and by the sloppiness of nonnative speakers who ignore… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image