Education : (1041)

" I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn’t even there for my own graduation. " - Tommy Caldwell

" My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. " - James Thurber

" I’m from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life. " - Vic Mensa

" I don’t think in terms of that bizarre tautology ‘value for money’ in my literary and journalistic work – and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don’t believe I’m helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I’ll resign. " - Will Self

" As far as I’m concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can’t think of anything I’d rather see happen. " - Jamie Hyneman

" Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. " - Jonathan Kozol

" No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. " - Walter Lippmann

" I had one lesson with Devil’s Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do ‘Game of Thrones’, everything. " - Josh O'Connor

" Politicians of all kinds think there’s some running in talking tough about children’s reading. They think that if they announce to the public that some kind of daily drilling on sounds and letters is to be brought in, the problem of children’s reading will be solved. " - Michael Rosen

" At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics. " - Danica McKellar