Quotes About Learning

Convertida la educación en aprendizaje social, la escuela podrá anticipar a los niños lo que éstos devolverán a la sociedad cuando sean hombres. El alimento, el vestido, el juguete, el libro, la herramienta, deben ser dados gratuitamente, para educar al niño en una atmósfera de solidaridad y de confianza, para enseñarle que todos los padres trabajan para todos los hijos.

Ignoran que el hombre vale por su saber;

Vivir es aprender, para ignorar menos; es amar, para vincularnos a una parte mayor con la humanidad; es admirar, para compartir las excelencias de la naturaleza y de los hombres; es un esfuerzo por mejorarse, un incesante afán de elevación hacia ideales definidos.

Vivir es aprender, para ignorar menos;

Las nociones mal digeridas sólo sirven para atorar el entendimiento. Pueblan su memoria

hay más placer en marchar hacia la verdad que en llegar a ella".

Nur das Schwierige ist anregend, nur der Widerstand der uns herausfordert, kann unser Erkenntnisvermögen geschmeidig krümmen, es wecken und in Gang halten

Misión de la Universidad. Dije en ella que la universidad debe, ante todo, hacer del hombre medio un hombre culto. Por hombre culto entendía que tuviese unas ideas claras y básicas de la Física, Biología, Historia, Sociología y Filosofía.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

you must study the endgame before everything else.

Ano sa makatwid ang isang Unibersidad? Isang institusyon para hindi matuto? Nagtitipon-tipon ba ang ilang tao sa ngalan ng kaalaman at pagtuturo para hadlangang matuto ang iba?

Mga mamamayan din ang mga bumubuo ng gobyerno at sila ang higit na nakapag-aral.' 'Ngunit tulad po ng ibang tao, nagkakamali kaya hindi dapat maging bingi sa kuro-kuro ng iba.

My opinions were formed by books, and I know only what men have brought to light; I know nothing of the things that remain hidden, that have not been written about.

there are more profound truths than one finds in history

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Hence, when studying a new work, it is imperative that a tonal picture of perfect clarity should be prepared in the mind before the mechanical (or technical) practicing begins. In the earlier stages of cultivating this trait it will be best to ask the teacher to play the piece for us, and thus to help us in forming a correct tonal picture in our mind.

Porque la experiencia es eso: una triste riqueza que solo sirve para saber cómo se debería haber vivido, pero no para vivir nuevamente.

No hagas caso de mis consejos; la experiencia está al final del camino y yo no debo quitarte ni el gusto del camino, ni la triste riqueza que vas a encontrar cuando lo hayas recorrido.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.