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
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School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
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Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that… — George Wald Copy Share Image
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How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian… — Christopher Benfey Copy Share Image
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image