Quotes on Education

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.