I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.
Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.
The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
Education is the most important thing you can have.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect. . . their governors are educated.
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.