Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

Morrie Schwartz

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Leland Stanford

We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.

I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.

Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

James Lipton

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

James Lipton

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.