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
