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Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality. -- Martin Rees
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. -- Lynn Swann
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric S. Raymond
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. -- Ralph Adams Cram
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created. -- Bob Inglis
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion. -- Neil Postman
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching. -- David W. Oxtoby
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect. -- Bill Nye
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product. -- Seymour Papert
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future. -- Ahmed Zewail
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' -- Martin Rees
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club. -- Ryan Holmes
The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research. -- Ahmed Zewail
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. -- Brian Greene
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science. -- Bernard Beckett
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. -- David Suzuki
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. -- Ben Bernanke
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. -- Edward Thorndike
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. -- Geoffrey Canada
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. -- Melinda Gates
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. -- Charles Babbage
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. -- Yuan T. Lee
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school. -- Gaylord Nelson
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. -- Roger Bannister
The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. -- Mario J. Molina
Education is the science of relations -- Charlotte Mason
.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics. -- Carl Phillips
The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. -- John Ortberg
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless. -- Jacque Fresco
Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation. -- Francois Hollande
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science. -- Barry W. Lynn
The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself. -- Glenn T. Seaborg
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. -- Maxim Gorky
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. -- David O. McKay
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. -- Eugenie Scott
The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe. -- Narendra Modi
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation. -- John F. Kennedy
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism. -- Nelson Mandela
In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness. -- Chris Kluwe
I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation. -- Tohoru Masamune
Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. -- Richard Louv

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