Education Quotes by Niall Ferguson

8 Education quotes by Niall Ferguson

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Niall Ferguson’s eight observations link education to historical trends and policy choices, offering a macro view that helps readers see schooling as a societal cornerstone.

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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

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“young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge.…

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I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

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“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even…

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“If there is one educational policy I would like to see adopted throughout the United Kingdom, it would be a policy that…

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The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that…

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In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

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“For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the…

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“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

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“Consider this: the US economy created 2.4 million jobs in the three years beginning in June 2009. In the same period, 3.3 million Americans…

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I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

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“Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power?”

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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

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Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,…

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“Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation…

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“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of…

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“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.…

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You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

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“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

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If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely…

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I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part…

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“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

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“it is not ‘Eurocentrism’ or (anti-)‘Orientalism’ to say that the rise of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the second…

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