Quotes About Education

It isn't necessary to learn how to do calculus to appreciate it, just as it isn't necessary to learn how to prepare fine cuisine to enjoy eating it.

Feynman asked Wouk if he knew calculus. No, Wouk admitted, he didn't. "You had better learn it," said Feynman. "It's the language God talks.

Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That's a valuable skill—it's called mathematical modeling.

First comes intuition. Rigor comes later.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

Information provides the tools with which we think and understand reality. Without accurate, up-to-date information, we can easily be manipulated and controlled.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.

We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.

Nonetheless, you can start trying out generics and extended for loops today.

It's easier to act out of ignorance than it is to become educated.

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates.