Quotes about "Education & Learning"

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people. ”

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control. ”

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity. ”

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us. ”

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. ”

The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean. ”

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems. ”

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense. ”

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate. ”

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. ”