Education Quotes - Page 32

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and examination because it is intrinsically beautiful, nothing more to say. Why play the violin? Because it is beautiful! Why engage in math? Because it too is beautiful!

This isn't higher education studying itself.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.