I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.
After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.
The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Feminism has fought no wars. . . killed no opponents. . . set up no concentration camps. . . starved no enemies. . . practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets. . . for reforms in the law.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.