Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect...

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

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates is that they keep giving back.

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...

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office,...

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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...

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to...

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

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.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Research is the creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge,...

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.

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

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to...

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to...

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

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 had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going to the Young Authors Conference where I'd get...

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

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...

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

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

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

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.