Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leland Stanford

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Marvin Olasky

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

Marvin Olasky

But we shouldn't be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn't think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.

James Lipton

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

James Lipton

I threw Spielberg out at 12:15 in the morning. Spielberg and the students. Coppola, out at 12:15. Billy Joel out at 12:15 in the morning.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

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.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

Morrie Schwartz

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Paul Farmer

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Seth Lloyd

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Paul Farmer

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

Seth Lloyd

Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.

Amos Alcott

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Robert Sternberg

When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Temple Grandin

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.