Quotes About Learning

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.