Quotes About Education

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.