If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of… — David Hood Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
I horse ride. I find it is the best way to maintain my fitness and stay physical. I have to practise anyway… — Liz Halliday Copy Share Image
I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly… — C. Terry Warner Copy Share Image
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to… — Ellen Rowland Copy Share Image
This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“If you don't have no schooling you are up against it in this country, sis. That is the way of it. No… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image