Quotes About Exploration

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!