Quotes About Education

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.