Quotes About Learning

I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.

I am not deliberately avoiding your question, General, only seeking a true answer. You ask if I am educated. Who knows what an edudated man is? My brain has been enriched with the logic of Aristotle, yet I know not how to milk a goat. I am acquaintanted with the science of Euclid, yet I cannot find a well or sail a vessel. I am familiar with Platonic philosophy, but I cannot build anything durable. Obviously I am an ignorant man.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

Ernest Thompson Seton

El conocimiento nos hace responsables

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.

Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and also – I will probably come back to this – morally. The State will be generally satisfied with him; it will scarcely notice him In this respect he bears a certain resemblance to the criminal – say, the master spy – whose gifts are concealed behind a run-of-the-mill occupation.

In order to penetrate the subject matter there must be, in addition, the love of teaching and the love of learning, the give and take between teacher and student, example and imitation. Beyond the technical problem, there is a personal encounter similar to that of a savage training his sons in the use of bow and arrow, or of an animal guiding its young. I am firmly convinced that one of the high orders of the universe is a pedagogical order.

Heutzutage trifft man gewöhnlich Leute, in denen der Typus vorwiegt, dem man anmerkt, dass er nur ein Buch gelesen hat.

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

Era una cosa bellissima un uomo che spiegava ai bambini i numeri, gli anni della storia, i posti della geografia. C'era una carta colorata del mondo, uno che non era mai uscito dalla città poteva conoscere l'Africa che era verde, il Polo Sud bianco, l'Australia gialla e gli oceani azzurri.

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Je prends le livre ouvert à la pliure, je me remets à son rythme, à la respiration d'un autre qui raconte. Si moi aussi je suis un autre, c'est parce que les livres, plus que les années et les voyages, changent les hommes.

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears. After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable. I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.

La libertà è il solo mezzo per arrivare, mediante l'esperienza, al vero e al meglio: e non vi è libertà se non vi è la libertà dell'errore.

Christopher Bache has been a professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University for thirty years and more recently adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was director of transformative learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His teaching focuses on Eastern religions, psychology of religion, and transpersonal psychology. Bache is the author of three books.

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Children know everything about beauty," Titch countered softly. "It is adults who have forgotten.

Erasmus and I used to watch her as she sat for her Italian lessons in the afternoon. She was the most beautiful creature we knew. You were children, his father said. You knew nothing of beauty. Children know everything about beauty, Titch countered softly. It is adults who have forgotten.

Well, now that is a question. I will only say that if I have acquired any wisdom from Big Kit, it is to live always with your eyes cast forward, to seek what will be, for the path behind can never be retaken.