Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person… — C S Lewis Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home),… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies. — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject… — Kenneth Ring Copy Share Image
Obama has been trying or was trying to transform the country away from the way it was founded, and it is causing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a… — Billy Kennedy Copy Share Image
University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal. — Kate Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU,… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich Copy Share Image