Any Quote by Soledad O'Brien

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb…

— William Alexander Percy

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

— Jalen Rose

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned,…

— John Taylor Gatto

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of…

— Robert Sternberg

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn…

— Andrew Lo

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

— Jean Piaget

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a…

— Immanuel Kant

“The many years that we all spend in schools learning skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic—as well as the additional learning that happens on…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

— Neale Donald Walsch

The world is becoming increasingly changeable and unpredictable, so why should education make the knowledge being passed on so finite and certain; why divide…

— Michael Rosen