Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.