Quotes about "Education & Learning"

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15. ”

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. ”

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising. ”

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience. ”

When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market. ”

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn't they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them? ”

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences. ”

Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions. ”

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods. ”

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. ”