Education Quotes - Page 21

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

Only the educated are free.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.