The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to… — James Stone Copy Share Image
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a… — Michael Sam Copy Share Image
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
