I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
For years I taught in universities and high schools for classes of 30 or 35 students. Now I teach in very large… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“most of the students were aware of their place in time and society, sensitive to the fact that an exploding technology hadn’t… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?"… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Students can't leave their lives at the door when they come to school. They bring with them whatever is going on at… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based;… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché… — John Currin Copy Share Image