Fran Tarkenton Quotes

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

Everything is educational.

By playing, you learn.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

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.