#schools

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#found #get #goes #left #only

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#competing #competition #into #introduce #most

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #charter #charter schools #civil #civil rights

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#browser #children #computers #designing #elementary

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#am #any #i #i am #kids

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#enlightenment #especially #reason #schools #science

In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens. ↗

— Kirsten Olson

#schools #wounded-by-school #education

Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real. ↗

— Charles Vest

#because #budgets #country #defense #department

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#educate #knew #knows #must #now

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#first #internet #our #school #school system