Quotes About Learning

Education as I knew it was made up of such a preestablished collection of certainties. Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

But, to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers. I would go so far as to say that, if one must make a choice between reading or taking part in a workshop, one should read.

One learns by thinking about writing, and by talking about writing-but primarily through writing.

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information, where he offers graciously his deep findings. While the man who has only questions to comfort himself makes music.

One learns thinking about writing, and by talking about writing—but primarily through writing.

Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me -- to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always care-ingly.

Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.

Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned.

The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers.

To enjoy, to question—never to assume, or trample. Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me—to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always care-ingly.

Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me - to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly.

Let me     keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be     astonished.

You are young. So you know everything.

Zebras live in family groups. As no two zebras have exactly the same pattern of stripes, every baby zebra must learn its own mother's pattern.

Reading is the passport to countless adventures

Through curiosity, I forget my failures and sorrows, and I feel great happiness.

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

Dear Reader, Did you know there's a Magic Tree House® book for every kid?

Mary Pope Osborne