Quotes About Curiosity

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

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.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

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.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

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.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.