Quotes about "Education & Learning"

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. ”

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere. ”

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter. ”

I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. ”

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. ”

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ”

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ”

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems? ”

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education. ”

Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training. ”