Education Quotes - Page 39

• Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Passion, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  Adolf Hitler

  School, Rise To Power, History

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• Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Believe, Thinking

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• You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Humble, Simple

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• Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Laughter, Inspiration, Littles

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• We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

  Allen Weinstein

  Attention, Records, World

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• The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Giving, Community

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• Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Writing, Skills

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

  George Polya

  Math, Figures, Geometry

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• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

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• Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

  George Polya

  Math, Effort, Seeing The Truth

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• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Writing, Learning

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

  Martial

  Reading, Writing

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• If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Science

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Appreciation, Mean, Math

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

  Zig Ziglar

  Learning, School, Personal Development

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 14, 2014

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• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Opportunity, Choices, Generations

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• I got an early education from television.

  Debra Wilson

  Television, Early Education

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• Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful.
  If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
  If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Math, Numbers

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Reading, Writing, Swimming

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Book, Race, Daily Tasks

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

  Paul Halmos

  Knowledge, Math, May

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• Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

  Morris Kline

  Knowledge, Math, Intuition

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.408, Oxford University Press

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