About Quote by David Christian

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead…

— Aldous Huxley

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

— Jalen Rose

I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of…

— Lucy Larcom

Education has for its object the formation of character.

— Herbert Spencer

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically…

— Steven Pinker

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of…

— David O. McKay

Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize…

— Philip Kitcher

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most…

— Joseph Brodsky

“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both…

— Walker Percy

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

— Mata Amritanandamayi