Quotes About Education

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Without questions, there is no learning.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.