Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age. — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take… — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way… — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said,… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed. — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him,… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again -… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I guess my biggest failure was not getting re-elected. And I learned two things; one is that you ought not to ever… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao. — Andruw Jones Copy Share Image
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
