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Quotes About Learning

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
~ Maggie Gallagher
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
~ H. L. Mencken
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
~ Laozi
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
~ Sidney Sugarman
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
~ Ken Robinson
I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.
~ Monty Roberts
The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
~ Ram Dass
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
~ Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.
~ Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.
~ Russell Simmons
Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.
~ Kenneth Arrow
Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
~ Arne Duncan
Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
~ Gautama Buddha
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
~ Peter Drucker
there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be
~ J. K. Rowling
Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.
~ Linda Darling-Hammond
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
~ John Wooden
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~ W. S. Merwin
The best teacher in life is experience.
~ LeBron James
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As in everything, nature is the best instructor.
~ Adolf Hitler