Quotes About Education

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Kids today have the attention span of high-speed lint.

Little repetition is needed for learning.

results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind. The ease with which they are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling.

More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

The truth is that small schools are not better on average; they are simply more variable.

And the more luck was involved, the less there is to be learned.

These students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind.

Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than is available in everyday language.

Recall that the correlation between two measures—in the present case reading age and GPA—is equal to the proportion of shared factors among their determinants.

teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.

Emotional learning may be quick, but what we consider as "expertise" usually takes a long time to develop.

We already knew that people are good intuitive grammarians: at age four a child effortlessly conforms to the rules of grammar as she speaks, although she has no idea that such rules exist.

The initial enthusiasm for the idea in the Ministry of Education had waned by the time the text was delivered and it was never used.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that a man learns more by "playing" with ideas in his leisure time that by sitting in a classroom. And Plato's successor, that world champion of pleasure, Epicurus, believed in a simple yet elegant connection between learning and happiness: the entire purpose of education was to attune the mind and sense to the pleasures of life.

is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Might