“ Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education. James Morcan
“ You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could not break my promise if I would. Th… Alexandre Dumas
“ It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckag… Jennifer Egan
“ Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing. Robert Lane Greene
“ The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“ The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale. George W. Bush
“ In School of One, students have daily "playlists" of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on that student's readiness and learning style. For example, Julia is… Eric Ries
“ One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic educ… Joshua Rothman
“ The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going o… David Foster Wallace
“ The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out – a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution – in order to put the South back on… Allen C. Guelzo
“ Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with t… Jenna Jameson
“ How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?' Taro asked. 'Friends who would betray you to your death. People in authority who use their power to perform the most unnatural acts. People hat… Moira J. Moore
“ I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever… Mark Twain
“ Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. Diane Ravitch
“ When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and… Thomas Love Peacock
“ Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) Maria Semple
“ I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts. Amy Tan
“ You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
