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Quotes About Education

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
~ Doc Watson
In any of the arts, you never stop learning.
~ Claire Bloom
A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
~ Caroline Pratt
Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!
~ Frank Van Dun
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
~ Ellen Hollman
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
~ Bill Lear
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
~ John Hersey
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
~ Herbert Marcuse
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
~ Otto von Bismarck
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
~ Gautama Buddha
Laughter is no enemy to learning
~ Walt Disney
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
~ Carl Rogers
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.
~ William Thurston
Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
~ David Bohm
EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
~ Bulleh Shah
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
~ Noam Chomsky
Change is the end result of all true learning.
~ Leo Buscaglia
You cannot open a book without learning something.
~ Confucius
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .
~ Whitney M. Young
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
~ bell hooks
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
~ James S. Coleman
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
~ Arthur Rackham