Neil Bush Quotes

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I grow old learning something new every day.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.