Quotes About Education

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.