Quotes about "Education & Learning"

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos. ”

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use. ”

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ”

Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places. ”

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. ”

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan. ”

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. ”

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. ”

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. ”

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. ”