Horst Ludwig Stormer Quotes

We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines, so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced, in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

Said Aldermen shall forwith proceed to have a schoolhouse built ... and shall see that the same be kept in repair.... At everyone of these schools shall be taught reading, writing, and common arithmetic, and the books which shall be used herein for instructing the children to read shall be such as will at the same time make them acquainted with Grecian, Roman, English and American history.

There is a strong propaganda value to history as taught in American Schools

My kid is in the fifth grade. Out of twelve subjects, seven are pure religion. You tell me a system of this nature is going to bring into the labor force a highly qualified Saudi? Bullshit.

We wish that in all parts of the Kingdom many will become wise and knowledgeable, by having access to a fountain of knowledge, and a seminary of doctrine., so that they, made proficient by study and observationwill serve divine justice and will become useful to us, for the administration of Justice and of the laws which we urge everyone to obey. We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands.

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

Those who start life with the fewest advantages need the smallest classes.

Today, difficulties that a mere two or three years ago would have passed for private matters – for conflicts between students and teachers, workers and employers, or marital partners, for conflicts between individual – now claim political significance and ask to be justified in political terms. Psychology seems to turn to politics…

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.