Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

All my knowledge comes from research.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

[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

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

Academic freedom carries with it the right to heresy as well as the right to restate and defend the traditional views.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact, we know that it may serve any cause. It may serve tyranny as well as truth, war as well as peace, death as well as life

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.