Quotes About Education

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. According

Paula Bonhoeffer had memorized an impressive repertoire of poems, hymns, and folk songs, which she taught her children, who remembered them into their old age.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition. —EBERHARD BETHGE

Years later it occurred to me that I was doing the same thing when I was helping my daughter memorize "Paul Revere's Ride." I was teaching her to love sacrifice and goodness and truth and beauty, and I was teaching her the history of America and therefore teaching her to love America

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

For me, the heart of a humanistic education is the effort to understand what we don't agree with, and yes, understanding makes it harder to sustain a distance from others, even if I continue to disagree.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning.

You can't take learning to the bank; you can't spend it or invest it.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning. The

Let's forget educational design up until now, let's forget what's possible and just redesign learning with today's students and today's technology in mind.

You can't take learning to the bank; you can't spend it or invest it. You cannot give it to customers and cannot return it to limited partners.

our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively.

job positions that used to accept a high school diploma now need an Associate's degree. Positions that used to accept an Associate's degree now need a Bachelors degree. And lastly, Bachelors degree preferred positions now require a Masters degree.

Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, "By studying the masters, not their pupils"- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.

As Whitehead has observed, "No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.

Today it is given in the textbooks as an example which young students dispose of in twenty minutes or less. Yet it held Newton up for twenty years. He finally solved it, of course

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

David Cutler wrote in MIT Technology Review, "the single most unused person in health care" is the patient.

second major driver of open knowledge has emerged. These are MOOCs (massive open online courses), which broadcast lectures to tens of thousands of people who have an Internet connection and want to sign up.

this really took off in 20116–11 with a Stanford University artificial intelligence class: 160,000 people signed up from 195 countries after one public announcement and 23,000 finished the course.