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“Teaching is different today. Teachers dont just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What were ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.”
“Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.”
“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.”
“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 t...”
“Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.”
“The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?”
“During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.”
“When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!”
“Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust...”
“It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.”
“This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious.”
“We all wear masksto veil the truth.Truth is nakedness.Truth is fear.Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lapasking you tolight his cigarette.Truth is father with a limp cigarette on his lips...”
“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above t...”
“I was like I was in science class: I was curious.”
“Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.”
“People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.”
“There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.”
“Do not just accept everything. Investigate carefully.”
“My continuing passion is to explore strange industries, to acquire new knowledge and ask many questions, to boldly learn something I did not know before.”
