Edward G. Begle Quotes

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Edward G. Begle

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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Man

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Community
  • Needs

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Education
  • Works
  • Convinced

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Pass
  • Few

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Good is not good when better is expected.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Better
  • Expected

• But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Way
  • Education
  • Like

• 117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Education

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Education

• At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!

  

  Mary Beard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Girl

• The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Future
  • Education

• Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • May
  • Education

• Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Words
  • Stress

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Small

• If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Matter
  • Facts
  • Logic

• Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

  

  Edward G. Begle
  • Education
  • Mathematics
  • Expected