education Quotes

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.