Quotes About Education

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.

I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can make use of.

I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.