Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
As secretary of education, a parent, and a former teacher and principal, I've seen that no matter a parent's political leaning, their… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Books are great, but travel is the greatest teacher. If you have a choice, choose to travel. Not everywhere you go will… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
My first official teaching job was at GIT, which was fantastic because I wanted to pay the rent and I got to… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image