It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been a social justice advocate all my life, becoming an activist for women and human rights even in high school, and… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“School was out for the day, it was just barely starting to feel like spring, and everybody streamed through the hallways drunk… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
Super Bowl V was the Colts against the Cowboys and Jim O'Brien kicked a 32 yard field goal to beat the Cowboys.… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
“Shutting the door, I look around and see clusters of groups all over the parking lot. Every school is different. You generally… — Heather Gunter Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've always been interested, since graduate school, in why some children wilt and shrink back from challenges and give up in the… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alaska, okay? My dad graduated high school and went straight to the mountains. He had $300 and staked… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new… — Julie Morgenstern Copy Share Image
You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds… — Keith Brantly Copy Share Image
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
The first job that had a real big impact on my life that I remember the best was I worked at a… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
I loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn't the biggest thing, but the social aspect… — Lando Norris Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
They used to call me 'Touchdown T.' I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I've pretty much grown up on set, and my favorite part about it is being able to actually see how movies are… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“The school is teeming with activity. The rooms are small and large, many are special-purpose rooms, like shops and labs, but most… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous… — Karan Patel Copy Share Image
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
