Quotes About Learning

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is life itself.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

wonder is the mother of all science.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

It is [the teacher's] business to be on the alert to see what attitudes and habitual tendencies are being created. In this direction he[sic] must, if he is an educator, be able to judge what attitudes are actually conducive to continued growth and what are detrimental. He must, in addition, have that sympathetic understanding of individuals as individuals which gives him an idea of what is actually going on in the minds of those who are learning.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

I believe that the school must represent life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.