Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

As a matter of principle, science teachers are professionally bound to limit their teaching to science and should resist pressure [from religious fundamentalists] to do otherwise.

… to develop a plan to promote better science education

One of the most important aspects of science that I learned from my father was to distrust authority.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.