If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding..

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you ….

"Thinking" is not something we talk about..

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work..

If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade..

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how fact….

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately ….

State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards ….

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand..

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In d….

The teacher is the only one worth listening to..

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment ….

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring ….

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disa….

As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific informa….

We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions ….

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind..

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well support….

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atroph….

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neg….

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the de….