Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

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.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.