Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Through the Committee on Education and the Workforce, we need to ensure we are educating a future generation to achieve a workforce… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the past three years, the CIVIX Student Budget Consultation has helped us to better understand the most pressing national issues for… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential.… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I once herd a teacher tell the class if we did not study we'd be working in McDonald's cleaning floors or flipping… — Enrique Alcala Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation.… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
I predict that you students who are burning out from the pressure to fix upon a career choice as early as possible… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“If we can recognize what makes us unique, and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much… — Carlos Heleno Copy Share Image
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you… — Mike Stern Copy Share Image
I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar...… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich… — Santiago Martinez Delgado Copy Share Image
I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity.… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image