Quotes About Education

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Real revolution starts with learning.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.