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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

Ifs Inspirational Persons School Interest Inspiring Education Learning Successful Positivity Enjoyment Thoughtful Successful People Successful Business

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

Humans Has Beens Motivational Used Universe Interest Human Beings Animal Learning Human Nature Humility Notes Fifty Ironic Dolphins

Author:Carl Sagan

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

Thinking Giving Should Feelings Would Be Interest Numbers Learning Aim Passing Passings Immense Strain Tedious Initiate Homeschooling Full Life

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.”

Reason Interest Imagination Knowledge Learning Engaged

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.”

Care Interest Learning Teaching Objects Carried Away

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.”

Thinking Inspirational Happens Care School Spiritual Passion Courses Interest Loses Learning Too Much Students Self Improvement Emphasis

Author:Jack Canfield

“One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.”