Irving Kaplansky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.

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