Quotes About Curiosity

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

If children have interest, then Education happens

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.