Quotes About Education

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

A great economy requires great public schools.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

With the Internet you can research anything.

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission.

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

I'm big on research.

I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

Research shows that when children have no body confidence at school they're less likely to put their hand up in class and ask a question.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

Research in this country is going down.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

Even beginning to teach cybersecurity awareness at an early age can pique the interest of future researchers, engineers, and administrators.