Quotes about "Education & Learning"

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. ”

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. ”

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that. ”

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge. ”

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered. ”

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies. ”

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ”

Education is the cheap defense of nations. ”

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. ”

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. ”