Chris Hadfield Quotes

For training, you know what works and what doesn't work. And you know where you fall short and you need to pick up, so I'm not worried about the age factor.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

Training is always important.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.