Quotes About Education

Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.

Marc Andreessen (here) long ago referred to the above double-/triple-threat concept, citing Scott's writing, as "even the secret formula to becoming a CEO. All successful CEOs are like this." He reiterated that you could also cultivate this in school by getting unusual combinations of degrees, like engineering + MBA, law degree + MBA, or undergrad physics + economics.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.

Creo que desnaturaliza la búsqueda de una formación laboral satisfactoria y de un trabajo satisfactorio,

Blinkist—an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.

Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn't want cogs anymore. Parents get to decide . . . [and] from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., those kids are getting homeschooled. And they're either getting home-schooled and watching The Flintstones, or they're getting homeschooled and learning something useful.

John Dewey's dictum that "a problem well put is half-solved

As Tony recounted, Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life…. There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom…. It's those skill sets that really make that happen.

PARTING ADVICE? "What I would really like is for those of you who have been told that you're learning disabled, or you're not good at math, or that you're terrible at music, or something like that, to seek out unconventional ways of proving that wrong. Believe not only in yourselves, but that there are [ways, tools, methods] powerful enough to make things that look very difficult much easier than you ever imagined.

Always be a student and always be a teacher.

I've always treated the world as my classroom, soaking up lessons and stories to fuel my path forward. I hope you do the same. The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

DiSSS The recipe for learning any skill is encapsulated in this acronym.

This poster, which I still have on my wall 20 years later, contains all 1,945 of the j?y? kanji , the characters designated for basic literacy by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Most

I am, and will continue to be, a humble student of you all.

I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.

I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us.

Para tener una vida de éxito que entre dentro de la media, no hace falta planificar demasiado. Basta con no meterte en problemas, seguir una formación académica y buscarte un trabajo que te pueda gustar.

Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill. Or get a degree in business on top of your engineering degree, law degree, medical degree, science degree, or whatever. Suddenly you're in charge, or maybe you're starting your own company using your combined knowledge.

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.