Education Quote by John Knowles Download Open image “The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.” — John Knowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Teaching Yale
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community. — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition. — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me. — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles Copy Share Image
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart.” — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image