Education Quotes
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Let the questions be the curriculum.
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
There is no learning without remembering.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth
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