Quotes About Education

You've not revised ... at all?" "Esther ... Surely this shouldn't be a problem. English lit is a no-mark's degree with no vocational value. Just wave your hands around a lot and 'interpret'!

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

First then, I lay down for a principle, that nobody at an University is to be taught the practice of any rule without the true and solid reason and demonstration of the same. Rules without demonstration must and ought to be taught to seamen, artisans, &c. as I have already said; and schools for such people are fit in seaports and trading towns; but it is far below the dignity of an University, which is designed for solid and true learning, to do this.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, That the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint None of us ever graduates from college, For time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you'd do well in life. That's a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate.

He [Thomas Hobbes] had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Before investing in devices, it is important to first define the educational vision and goals for digital learning.

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

Ignorant people are controlled people, which is why five companies now have spent billions of dollars to control our mass media. Nothing will change until masses of people understand this.

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

All, or almost all, of the books were complete by the age of Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE).

John L. Stoddard's Lectures VOL. IX Scotland England

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

If everyone had the same education, the inequality of income would be reduced by less than 10 percent.

The kids who could wait fifteen minutes for a marshmallow had an SAT score that was, on average, 210 points higher than that of the kids who could wait only thirty seconds.

Economics graduate students are far more likely to free-ride than other students.

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.