Jenova Chen Quotes

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

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

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.