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Quotes About Learning

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~ Tryon Edwards
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
~ Marva Collins
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
~ Dan Millman
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
~ James W. Loewen
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
~ Bill Gates
When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.
~ Gampopa
Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.
~ Akiane Kramarik
We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
~ Loren Eiseley
Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.
~ Evan Esar
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
~ Jerome Bruner
Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
~ Richie Sambora
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
~ Eugen Herrigel
Music is the ultimate teacher.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Enemies were teachers in disguise.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
~ Taron Egerton
All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.
~ Michael Meade
I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.
~ Stephen Gaskin
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.
~ Steve Perry