Quotes About Education

I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .

I don't like the word 'education' because it is such an extraordinary abstraction. I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.' So

I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.

We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.

You can't blame your boss for not giving you the support you need. Plenty of people will say, 'It's my boss's fault.' No, it's actually your fault because you haven't educated him, you haven't influenced him, you haven't explained to him in a manner he understands why you need this support that you need. That's extreme ownership. Own it all.

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

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

Creo que debemos enseñar a los chicos dos cosas: 1) a dirigir, y 2) a resolver problemas interesantes. Porque la cuestión es que hay un montón de países en la Tierra con gente dispuesta a ser obediente y a trabajar más por menos dinero que nosotros.

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. So we cannot out-obedience the competition. Therefore, we have to out-lead or out-solve the other people. . . .

von Ahn, PhD, (TW: @LuisvonAhn, duolingo.com) is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the CEO of Duolingo, a free language learning platform with more than 100 million users.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

Many of the one-liners teach volumes.

Creo que la gente no aprende mucho en realidad del fracaso.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

I was ovulated, fertilized, and born in the 20th century. I can't wipe out my whole personal background, or the fact that almost everyone I talk to today is brain-damaged by our education. I think American education makes us hopeless symbol addicts. It's designed to produce docile automatons. But it's going to take years before you can urge young people to drop out of school without appearing to be an eccentric or a mad-man.

All of this educational work was enormously successful. Millions of Americans accepted the "head philosophy," the belief that Ego and "Social Reality" are neural fictions.

ÖÄŸretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya haz?r olan "düÅŸünen" s?n?f?n genç üyeleri ile s?k s?k sorun yaÅŸarlar. Bu s?n?f?n yaln?zca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalmas? yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya haz?rd?rlar böylece onlar? geliÅŸtirebilirler.

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