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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem.
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.