Quotes About Education

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.