Quotes About Learning

We cannot expect to gain true knowledge without acting upon our ideas.

Genuine ignorance is more profitable because likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; while ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with a varnish waterproof to new ideas.

Education is not preparation for life; it is life itself.

But the live creature adopts its past; it can make friends with even its stupidities, using them as warnings that increase present wariness. Instead of trying to live upon whatever may have been achieved in the past, it uses past successes to inform the present. Every living experience owes its richness to what Santayana well calls "hushed reverberations.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

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

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

In those early years as a believer I had no idea Christians could be coy about their faith. No one had told me I was meant to feel awkward about spreading the good news. That was something I learnt only after mixing with Christians for a while. But I learnt it soon enough.

knowledge alone is not powerful even when the dots are interconnected, but humility can take you far away

knowledge is the most powerful thing on earth, harvest it and use it wisely

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.