Quotes About Education

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

Education and material well-being had reached heights that had surely exceeded anything in history, yet we did not seem to have a particular advantage for gaining wisdom, joy and peace of mind.

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives.

Jorl had said he would take responsibility for his son's education. Arlo hadn't reflected on what that meant; what an historian's sensibilities would do to the keen edge of his son's hunger for learning.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools.

Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

A college lecture is a queer thing, for people not accustomed to it. The Professor isn't exactly dictating the lecture, and he isn't exactly talking, and the class are not exactly taking dictation and they're not exactly listening. It's a system they both have grown so used to that it's second nature.

If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

Coding gives people the ability to change the world and from my perspective, it's the most important second language and the only language that is global

everything he learned about products he learned from Heathkits as a kid. Heathkits were popular kits for building electronics like ham radios, amplifiers, and oscillators. The kits taught Jobs that products were manifestations of human ingenuity, not magical objects dropped from the sky.

If the education system in America tended to teach students how to be an employee, British design students were more likely to pursue a passion and to build a team around them.

design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.