Alan Shepard Quotes

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I would like my kids to study well.

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

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

I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.

I used to be a reasonably good student.

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.

Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.