We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East.… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“There’s an article about Chicago closing dozens of schools and I should probably read it because it seems important and relevant—but to… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of… — Tamer Hassan Copy Share Image
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools… — Angela Rayner 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 think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that.… — Lleyton Hewitt Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in… — James R. Leininger Copy Share Image
What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it.… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ...… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going… — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
