Ron Howard Quotes

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Television was essentially my college.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.