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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
My all-time favorite TED talks are Brene Brown's 'The Power of Vulnerability' and Sir Ken Robinson's 'Do Schools Kill Creativity.'
So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
Well, the difference between 10th Planet and most other jiu jitsu schools is the obvious thing... we train exclusively no-gi.
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.
Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas.
The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.
If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?
As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.
I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.
The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.
When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.
It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that is seen nationally by everybody.
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.
Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.
I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are safe and supportive so that they can learn and thrive.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.
I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Southwestern Pennsylvania is home to the National Cemetery for the Alleghenies, and we already have local schools signed up and ready to research every veteran that is buried there.
Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.
I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton - all the rock 'n' roll sports.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.
From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.
I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.
I don't worry too much about sex education in the schools. If the kids learn it like they do everything else, they won't know how.
New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.
