Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

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"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability"

H. L. Hunt, Businessman

"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn!"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"While we read history, we make history"

George William Curtis, Author

"School is a foretaste of life"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"The willingness to learn new skills is very high"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized"

Brian Herbert, Author

"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I think Latin has some logic to it, and there was a discipline"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn"

William Godwin, Writer

"My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"Few things are as essential as education"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I study history in order to give an interpretation"

Oliver Stone, Director

"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... He who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much"

William Godwin, Writer

"I have always advised men to read"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"I have found people don't want to be told. that they can figure it out"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing"

Emily Carr, Artist

"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it, the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

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