Quotes about "Education & Learning"

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour. ”

You can send a lot of instruction through laughter. ”

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. ”

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ”

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. ”

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching. ”

Systems are overrated; players are underrated. ”

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do. ”

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ”

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits. ”