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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch, with these narrative arguments that explain it. So what I want to do with this book is open up this world of mathematical reality, the creatures that we build there, the questions that we ask there, the ways in which we poke and prod (known as problems), and how we can possibly craft these elegant reason-poems.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

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

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.