A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e.,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence.… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2.… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong 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
What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be… — Thomas Horn Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.'… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet. I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than… — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things… — Mark Lepper Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image