Data Quote by Sal Khan

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

— Sebastian Thrun

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a…

— Dana Goldstein

“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It…

— G.K. Chesterton

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

— Sydney J. Harris

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

— Richard Livingstone

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

— Bertrand Russell

“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there…

— Christopher Moore

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science,…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

— Amartya Sen

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough,…

— Anonymous