Quotes About Curiosity

Mathematics should be fun.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Education is the number one priority.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

Play is the highest form of research.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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

The more you learn, the more you know there is still alot more to learn't