Quotes About Education

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

All science requires mathematics.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Science is the only savior.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.