Quotes About Education

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

I don't know anything about computers.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.