education Quotes

Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do prepare readers new to Levi for a forbiddingly educative experience, making him a writer unlike all others and the experience of reading him a chore. Which it isn't.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.