Keri Smith Quotes

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

I like to make people think a little bit.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.