Quotes About Education

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

I am not saying celebrity chefs don't encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your face with Pot Noodles instead of learning from them.

If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Stupid people are ruining America.

Can we agree there are no stupid questions? Probably not. But let's try anyway.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.