Ezra Klein Quotes

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

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

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

What passes for a curriculum in today's schools is little else than a strategy of distraction... It is largely defined to keep students from knowing themselves and their environment in any realistic sense; which is to say, it does not allow inquiry into most of the critical problems that comprise the content of the world outside the school.

… the debate of the understudies

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Young people must sieze the fortress of science if they want to truly replace the old guard.

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.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

I don't think there's ever a wrong answer as long as people are willing to learn, share. You're never done learning.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.