Technology And Education Quotes

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.