To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

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...

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

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...

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school. I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and...

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

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen...

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has...

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.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

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

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians - or the Pakistanis.

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}...

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

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

You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

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.