Peter Hammill Quotes

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'

Where you learn things, really, is watching it in front of an audience.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

My university work was not central to my education.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

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

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.