Education Quote by Charles Babbage

The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable…

— Charles Babbage

But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class…

— Matthew Arnold

In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete…

— John Desmond Bernal

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has…

— Charles Babbage

“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood…

— David Brewster

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great…

— Woodrow Wilson

I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of…

— John Taylor Gatto

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

— Martin Fleischmann

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood…

— David Brewster

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

— Martin Fleischmann

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so…

— Isaac Asimov

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too…

— Robert Winston