Quotes about "Education & Learning"

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. ”

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. ”

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children. ”

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. ”

Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it. ”

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ”

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result. ”

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. ”

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person. ”

I want to go at least 11 hours without food. I sat next to Hugh Jackman at a conference, and he told me he fasted 12 to 14 hours when he was training for the Wolverine movies. I've deluded myself into thinking I can effortlessly achieve the same body type as Hugh Jackman if I keep up this eating schedule. ”