Quotes About Education

My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.

'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.

There are so many things you can do with a culinary degree.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

It's important that we challenge the culture of low expectations. You need to believe every child can do well.

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

My parents weren't cultured people.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.

Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You've got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer.

I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.

You always need to be curious and study.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.