Edward de Bono Quotes

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

My father taught only math.

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

My subjects were maths and physics. I truly appreciate the value in sciences, but understand the difficulty finding and retaining teachers for these subjects, especially when most of my Imperial cohort ended up as management consultants or in finance.

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

We need to beef up STEM education.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I was determined to know beans.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?