Education Quote by Sugata Mitra

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like…

— John Desmond Bernal

The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.

— Prunella Scales

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

— Alastair Reynolds

Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use…

— Naveen Jain

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

— Bill N. Lacy

It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs…

— Fiona Barton

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat.…

— David Cannadine

“Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And…

— Warren Berger

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial…

— Alvin Toffler