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Quotes About Education

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
~ Aristotle
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
~ Dennis Ritchie
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
~ Barack Obama
I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.
~ Michelle Obama
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
~ Lou Holtz
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
~ Jim Rohn
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~ Ray Charles
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~ Fred Rogers
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~ Alexander Pope
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
~ Marva Collins
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
~ Raghu Rai
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
~ Brian Herbert
Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
~ Jerome Bruner
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~ Oscar Wilde
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
~ Simone Weil
The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
~ Swami Brahmananda
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
~ Isaac Asimov
Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!
~ Steve Jobs
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
~ Itzhak Perlman
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.
~ Linda Darling-Hammond
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
~ Marva Collins