Quotes About Learning

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.

HECTOR Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do? CAPT. SHOTOVER Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman. HECTOR And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray? CAPT. SHOTOVER Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good