Clare Balding Quotes

Physical development fosters learning.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

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

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

The truth is, people love to learn.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

Sports and education, I think they overlap.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

Sport is an essential element of education.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

Any time you learn and grow, it's an exciting time.

I love getting away from the rink and being in school.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.