Quotes about "Education & Learning"

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about. ”

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. ”

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. ”

Middle-class families know education begins at birth. ”

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. ”

I do a lot of a cross training. ”

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. ”

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. ”

I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London. ”

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over. ”