Quotes about "Education & Learning"

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ”

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do. ”

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it. ”

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities. ”

We've been training since we were small. You definitely got to love it to be part of this family. We like to have fun. We like to work hard, and always staying out of trouble and always doing the right thing. ”

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country. ”

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. ”

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. ”

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct. ”

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. ”