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“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

People Thinking Needs Mind Littles Two Helping Kids School Three Hours Teaching Chairs Village Little Kid Athens Niger

Author:Christine Lagarde

“Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.”

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

Years School Social Cities Careers Study Teaching High School Years Ago Retired Social Studies Inner City Younger Sister Teaching History

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.”

World School Teacher Teaching High School Tables Chemistry Epistemology Pedagogy Periodic Table Chemistry Teachers

Author:Isadore Singer

“Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.”

School Education Teaching Can Not Propositions Do It Yourself

Book:Possums, politicians and people

Source: Possums, politicians and people

“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.”

School Teaching Smart High School Mathematical Temperament Dealer Stamina

Author:Larry Cuban

“What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.”

Ifs Made School Names Teaching Honest Fool Latin Horns Jargon Stools

Book:The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

“School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

School Results Education Accepting Teaching Evidence Built Institutions Contrary Despite Overwhelming Axioms

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.”

Art Two School Acting Teacher Teaching Meditating Art Teacher

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

People Ifs Should Years Enough Kids School Jobs Company Five Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Be Good Thirty Forty Good Enough

Author:Steve Jobs

“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”

Would Be School Deals Teacher Groups Teaching Students Disease Medicine Patient Currents Medical Primaries Broads Professors Pupils Professional Life Medical School Clinicians

Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.”

Character Today School Given Influence Teaching Needed Higher Silent Higher Education

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.”

Needs Helping School Education Teaching Special Training Standards Deserve Method Excellence Lifts Treatment Laboratory Special Treatment Methods Of Teaching

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.”

Different Whole School Certain Order Practice Teaching Degrees Hierarchy Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

School Individual Goal Education Teaching Building Goes On Ultimate Conviction Burden Educational Pursuit Odd Get Over Ultimate Goal Educational System School Buildings

Author:John W. Gardner

“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.”

Ifs Book Would Be Running School Found Teaching College Skills Entrepreneur Mindset Traditional Antidote Bureaucrats College Education

Author:Scott Banister

“People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.”

People Years Use School Natural Teaching Species Saint Nervous Sunday Artificial Harvard Cathedrals Nervous System Sunday School

Author:Timothy Leary

“The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.”

Men Mind School Lying Education Power Teacher Influence Teaching Objectives Prophet Stripes False Prophets

Author:Ron Dart

“One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.”

Persons Art Bigs School Given Business Failing Teaching Students Art School

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.”

People Believe Art Ideas Facts School Education Vision Creative Teaching Absolutes Train Contrary Despite Sole Creative People Ignoble Lunacy

Author:Christian Boltanski

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.”

“In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.”

Book Helping School Asks Quality Teacher Teaching Students Tests Notes Forbidden

Author:William Glasser

“Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”

“I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.”

World School Careers Teaching Worldly Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.”

Mean School Atheism Teaching Scientist Meetings Positive Atheism Boards Sufficient Creationism School Board Board Meetings

Author:Eugenie Scott

“I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.”

Art Real School Lasts Courses Teaching Draws Work Out Real Things Art School

Author:Trina Robbins

“They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.”

Ifs Men Long Stories School Beautiful Fall Bits Alive Teaching Hair Female Falling In Love Love Story Fallen Blonde Heroines Austen Blonde Hair Vibrancy Long Blonde Hair

Author:Anna Maxwell Martin

“Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.”

May Eye School Choices Girl Voice Teacher Teaching Taught Hero Prize Blockheads

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source: Studs Lonigan

“The school is the manufactory of humanity.”

School Humanity Teaching

Author:John Amos Comenius

“I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.”

School Speak Education Teaching Jargon Speak English

Author:Shirley Hufstedler

“The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.”

School Hate Teaching Media Office Wings Radio Marketplace Right Wing Hate Me Polemics

Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.”

Character Humor School Political Virtue Path Teaching Students Building Catholic Missions Word Of God Serving God Political Humor Catholic School

Author:George W. Bush

“I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.”

Thinking Years May Different Philosophy Use School Spiritual Church My Own Teaching Bases Catholic Sunday Catholic School Spiritual Teaching

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].”

Want Dream Able School Grows Growing Up Teaching Healthy Eating Training Like Me Disorder Better Life Stretching Eating Disorder Cardio Life Dream Strength Training Aerobics

Author:Richard Simmons

“Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.”

Done School Rooms Attention Teaching Middle Students College Approach Pay Attention Renaissance Middle School Instructors Lecturing

Author:Daphne Koller

“I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.”

School Teaching Posts Gross Anthropology Anatomy Dental Doctorates

Author:Mary Doria Russell

“My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.”

“These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.”

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”

“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.”

Men Book Self School Hope Wish Education Learning Teaching New York Self Improvement Library Improvement Glamour Philanthropist

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”

Persons Has Beens Enough School Black White Study Teaching Students Concepts Setting Settings Labels Black Person

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.”

“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.”

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

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