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Quotes About Learning

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
~ John Dewey
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
~ Paulo Freire
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills
~ Yip Man
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.
~ Steven Wright
Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals
~ Walter Lewin
Let Nature be your teacher
~ William Wordsworth
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
~ Carrie Fisher
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
~ Edmonia Lewis
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
~ John Amos Comenius
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
~ Robert Burns
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
~ Francis Bacon
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
~ Marva Collins
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
~ Marva Collins
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
~ e. e. cummings
My teacher once told me – "No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers."
~ Mahesh Bhatt
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
~ Steve Harvey
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
~ Henry Ford