When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground… — George Leef Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis… — William Westney Copy Share Image
The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked… — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely.… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time.… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to… — Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
“Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft,… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
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