An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential.… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Johnny appeared out of nowhere to save the day, reaching clumsily over Harriet’s head to punch the correct answer on the touch… — Erin Lawless Copy Share Image
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including… — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think we're seeing in the wake of the last election that evangelicals - especially young evangelicals - are no longer inextricably… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and… — John Walters Copy Share Image
At the age of 5, when I was in kindergarten, I often used to pass by the computer labs and see students… — Arfa Karim Copy Share Image
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know;… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
