Top 76 Curiosity Education Quotes
#2. In the real world, the tests are all open book.
Jeff Jarvis
#3. If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Richard J. Foster
#5. All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.
C.J. Mahaney
#6. Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David Hume
#7. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.
Zander Sherman
#8. The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.
Derrick Jensen
#9. Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every person I ever met.
Chris Gardner
#10. Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#11. 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.
Aldo Leopold
#13. Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#15. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
#16. When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#17. My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
#18. The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
Jim Elliot
#19. Do according to your capability.
Act according to your capacity.
Go according to your curiosity.
Be according to your possibility.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.
Joshua Neik
#22. My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
Akio Morita
#23. One of the greatest product of a meaningful education is the intellectual curiosity that leads men and women to continued learning and makes them eager to learn as the experience of life reveals areas of ignorance.
M.A. Khan
#24. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#25. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#26. If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.
Dhaval Gajera
#28. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
#29. But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity
Joanna Scott
#30. Education means only this- that the lively alert fearless curiosity of children must be fed, must be kept alive. That is education.
Doris Lessing
#31. The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.
Narendra Modi
#32. I inherited curiosity from my Dad.
Tom Clancy
#33. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
#34. Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization.
Yehudi Menuhin
#35. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
Ahmed Zewail
#37. A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
James Stockdale
#38. I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion
Kurt Hahn
#39. If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
Satya Nadella
#41. Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.
Jim Blasingame
#42. I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Sal says it's our responsibility as human beings to never lose our curiosity.
Suzanne Hayes
#44. Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.
John Ferling
#45. Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
#46. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Catherine The Great
#47. Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul Berg
#49. Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
Philo Of Alexandria
#50. Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
Jeff Jarvis
#51. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.
Greg Carlson
#55. Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
Floyd Dell
#56. A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
#57. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
Myles Horton
#58. There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#60. What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Norton Juster
#61. I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.
William Zinsser
#62. Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.
Debasish Mridha
#63. My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
#65. Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.
Bob Guccione Jr.
#66. Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
Tom Peters
#67. One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.
Beverly LaHaye
#68. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#70. Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Augustine Of Hippo
#72. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.
Aletheia Luna
#73. Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy
#74. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
#75. I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.
Elayne Boosler
#76. For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.
George Sorel
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