Quotes About Education

There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season." - John Wooden

You haven't made a fire till it has burned. You haven't made a dollar till it's earned. And no teaching has transpired If the child has not acquired. You haven't taught a child till he has learned.

Ada satu prinsip yang harus kamu ingat. Ilmu itu harta yang paling berharga. Kalau ada kesempatan untuk menambah ilmu, jangan pernah kamu sia-siakan.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

What you don't know would make a great book.

There's something missing in how we inform the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the letters and numbers, but we fail to inform them about the importance of our connection with the living world

So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, but should turn their attention to the infant rooms, since it is from there that comes peace or war.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student's struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.