Brendan Myers Quotes

Who's going to be against making sure students have the education for a knowledge economy?

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

[Logic and philosophy] were of no use, in the church or the state, in the cloister or the court, in peace or war, at home or abroad or anywhere but in the schools

Educate, educate, educate!

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

Education is the foundation of social progress and economic development.

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.

The importance of all education lies far more in the training of minds than in any facts which may be absorbed, for trained minds will ascertain the facts as they need to know them. Having learned to reason and to weigh the information they discover, people with such minds will be more nearly educated than any amount of cramming of definite facts into their heads will make them.

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.