I don't know how to turn on a computer.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that...

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve...

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank - you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr....

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to...

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of...

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all...

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy {anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy}...

It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.

We have the opportunity to pour into them what they were created to be

We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions helping my child to gain admission.

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most...

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized...

Self - education is a sacred act.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Edward Johnston