Marissa Mayer Quotes

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

I love learning new techniques.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

American ingenuity and innovation seem to be so nimble in responding to difficult problems that one could speculate that the progressivism that so many critics claim has seized American schools is the very fountainhead for that creativity and innovation.

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.