Education Quotes - Page 38

• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Knowledge, Math, Important

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• Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

  John T. Scopes

  Country, Teacher, Believe

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• You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.

  David Hawkins

  Simple, Labyrinth, Use

  David Hawkins (2007). “The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature”, p.174, Algora Publishing

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

  Augustus De Morgan

  Math, Squares, Circles

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

  Bennett Cerf

  Teaching, School, Boys

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• What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

  Maurice Natanson

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

  Michael Uslan

  Doors, Dust, Goal

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• Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

  Laura Matilda Towne

  Book, School, College

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• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  Ted Strickland

  Healthy, Connections, Economy

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• After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

  Leonhard Euler

  Math, Arise, Should

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• Now I will have less distraction.

  Leonhard Euler

  Math, Distraction, Mathematics

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)

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• It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

  Martin Gardner

  Math, Numbers, Perfect

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• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.

  Christine de Pizan

  Daughter, Art, School

  "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.

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• Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Teaching, Chinese Revolution

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• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Memories, Differentiation, Common

  "Modern Computer Algebra". Book by Joachim von zur Gathen, April 25, 2013.

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• I was x years old in the year x2.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Math, Years, Mathematics

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• 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.

  Plato

  Giving, Perfection, Soul

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• Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

  Edward G. Begle

  Math, Science, Complicated

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• In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

  Joel Barlow

  People, Theatre, Slavery

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.192

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• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

  John Milton

  War, Men, Office

  "Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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• The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

  Joel Barlow

  Art, Ideas, Justice

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• Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

  Lee Simonson

  Events, Favourite, Made

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• Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

  William Torrey Harris

  Men, Appreciate, Preparation

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• Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.

  Jules Simon

  Heart, Mind, Form

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