I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons...… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive,… — Lily Eskelsen Garcia Copy Share Image
Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is… — John Holt Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“I asked him about what it was like growing up as a Korean American in northern New Jersey in the 1970s and… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I had a lot of things I wanted to do… I want to be a teacher…I also want to be an astronaut…and… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live… — Mauricio Kagel Copy Share Image
That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad.… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image