Education Quotes by Walter Isaacson

10 Education quotes by Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson’s ten short quotes draw on his biographical expertise, underscoring how learning fuels innovation and the making of great lives.

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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” he…

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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have…

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“Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly,” Pestalozzi wrote, and “the learning of…

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“more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority,…

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“Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks…

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“When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations:…

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“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can…

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“Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit,” he said. “Accumulation of material should not stifle the student’s independence.”…

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“Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’unions were…

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“It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early…

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“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.…

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“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity…

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“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views…

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“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,…

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“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have…

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“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other…

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“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true.…

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“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on…

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“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this…

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