Quotes of: Education-reform Keyword

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

Rick Riordan

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even t...

Jennifer Garner

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the ...

Lynda Resnick

The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluati...

Michelle Grabner

How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in...

Robert Gottlieb

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central f...

Tom Chatfield

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

Island Magic

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.

The Square Book

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world.

Service: A Soldier's Journey: Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Violence of Urban Education

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Sentimental Education

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Martin Eden

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...

Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.

Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education