I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should… — Billy Kennedy Copy Share Image
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them… — Greg Smith Copy Share Image
Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an… — Michael Reeves Copy Share Image
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
