Quotes About Education

In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of cooperation, and acquiring wealth rather than serving others. People were educated for careers rather than for a love of work and creativity. And political parties became corrupted by political contributions from owners of great capital.

stipulation that the couple promise—indeed sign a pledge—to fund a savings account to pay for the boy's college education. There was another

He prescribed Euclidean geometry, followed by a dose of trigonometry and algebra. That should cure anyone, they both thought, from having too many artistic or romantic passions.

A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device

Gates was, after all, a serial stealer of computer time, and he had manipulated passwords to hack into accounts from eighth grade through his sophomore year at Harvard. Indeed, when he claimed in his letter that he and Allen had used more than $40,000 worth of computer time to make BASIC, he omitted the fact that he had never actually paid for that time and that much of it was on Harvard's military-supplied computer, funded by American taxpayers.

Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes.

truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself." Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. "The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting," he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him

She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, where the tuition was $76 per year. (In 2013 it was approximately $14,000 per year for in-state residents, a twelve-fold increase after adjusting for inflation.)

Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an "abacus school," Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an "unlettered man," as he dubbed himself with some irony. But he also took pride that his lack of formal schooling led him to be a disciple of experience and experiment.

While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all- time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek.

Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. "I insisted they put me in a different school

Like Jobs, Wozniak learned a lot at his father's knee. But their lessons were different. Paul Jobs was a high school dropout who, when fixing up cars, knew how to turn a tidy profit by striking the right deal on parts. Francis

Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beautifully drawn. "I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales was born in 1966

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like

He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. "I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble." It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

I don't think that kids starting out with computers today get as welcome of an entry to programming as I did.

For Leonardo, this talent may have been connected to growing up with a love of nature while not being overly schooled in received wisdom.

Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales y a los comerciantes del Quattrocento.

Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4