Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Know or listen to those who know.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Always desire to learn something useful.

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

Having students was so inspiring.

Students should feel excited and prepared for the new school year.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

School's always been very important to me.

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

It's homework. It sucks.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small