Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done--or would do--something means that you… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day.… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There's an obligation to let people know where their money is going, so the tour has an educational aspect, mostly as a… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage,… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of… — Margrit Mondavi Copy Share Image
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed… — Horst Schulze Copy Share Image
The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that… — Rick Boucher Copy Share Image
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied… — Albert Einstein 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
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image