Quotes about "Education & Learning"

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks. ”

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. ”

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. ”

I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing. ”

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. ”

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas. ”

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ”

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ”

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ”

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ”