Educational Tool Quotes

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

We have people building models in Roblox for their Mayan ruins history project, or we've had people build tornadoes for their weather project. Roblox can be used in a lot of different ways.

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?