Quotes About Learning

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.