Quotes on Education

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.