Education Quotes - Page 79

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

Man is what he reads.

There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.