Learning Enthusiasm Quotes

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

I was always a history buff.

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I don't believe most kids enjoy school at all, and that's a shameful waste, considering how curious and excited kids are to learn. They're naturally curious, full of wonder.

I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business.

I never bunked school. School was always the most special place for me.

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

If I'm learning something, that's all I want to talk about.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to cover when I was eight.

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.