Quotes About Education And Curiosity

#1. Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Ahmed Zewail

#2. 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

#3. Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Open the book and read it to renew your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

James Stockdale

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

Narendra Modi

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#25. Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Paul Berg

#26. 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

#27. I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

Jim Blasingame

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else.

Debasish Mridha

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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.

#37. My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas