Reuven Rivlin Quotes

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Education is understanding relationships.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.