Quotes about "Education & Learning"

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. ”

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria. ”

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. ”

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ”

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. ”

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ”

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ”

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine. ”

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”

Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic. ”