Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
No matter how early I wake up for class, I always have to rush to make it there on time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school.… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk… — Didi Conn Copy Share Image
Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system. — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was… — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I started running in high school. I found out if you run fast then you can get girls. — Kim Collins Copy Share Image
“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.” — Ted Orland Copy Share Image
We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I am not deadpan all the time, but that is a part of my personality. I was always the sarcastic one at… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come… — Harry Shum, Jr Copy Share Image
Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
“I'm not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.” — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn't earning a living being a musician by 'A Boy Named Goo,' I… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail nowand always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
