What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a… — Mario Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you… — Taya Kyle Copy Share Image
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear:… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Beyond a limited use of good ole vocab and grammar texts to give the students a base, textbooks of any kind just… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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