An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The difficulty is to find teachers, particularly in the humble kind of schools, who can explain the elements of astronomy; but if teachers were taught such matters, they could explain them to others, and some of the teachers would be better employed in this way than in learning and teaching other things.... I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools. When children are younger, we must use other ways of training the eye to observe.
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
From his New Year Address http://www.stm.dk/_p_13032.html (1 January 2010).
2010s, 2010
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.”
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
1962, Rice University speech
Context: The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth.
The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School (1908)
