Solomon Short Quotes

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

My parents wanted me to get a degree.

I think college has helped me.

I mean, my training at Oberlin has been absolutely valuable.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and out comes a scholar.