Quotes About Education

If we can get people excited about animals, then by crikey, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to save them.

Every single day of our lives involves wildlife education. We must teach, spread the word, the wildlife gospel.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Hey Trav, When I first got in this course, I didn't want a pervert teaching me. Now I don't mind. —Tony

The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know."

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

Before the publication of this book in 1991 B.C. (Before Candlesticks), who ever heard of a candlestick chart?

The more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to learn.

Teaching helped sharpen your own skills.

University, over 40 percent of what you do on a daily

In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock. So at the actual birth I was shocked to see all this blood. The thing I had prepared myself for was a lot of lint.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

And thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience.

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book ... I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

The study of political philosophy has always revolved around such questions as "Why should I obey the law?" "What is a citizen and how should he or she be educated?" "Who is a lawgiver?" "What is the relation between freedom and authority?" "How should politics and theology be related?" and perhaps a few of others.

For example, the client who values education might be asked, "What if you received the education, but no one knew. Would that still be of importance?

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

Elvis had been a truck driver, but John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ray Davies, and Keith Richards were all art college students who tended to think of themselves as artists.

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.