Quotes About Learning

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

I cannot live without children.

First character, then ability.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.

Our aim needs to be the nurturing of children. The moment we rigidly convince ourselves, "Education is what we're after," we warp a child's development. -1-  First foster the heart, then help the child acquire ability. This is indeed nature's proper way.

The kind of society that Japan should aim at is a society in which the efforts of people are rewarded, a society in which there is no stratification into winners and losers, and a society in which ways of working, learning, and living are diverse and multi-tracked- in other words, a society of opportunity where everyone has a chance to challenge again. If there are people who sense they are facing inequality, it is the role of politics to shed light on them.

Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited.

Did you know that life is kind of like school? So how about when you're all done with the school of life,

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.

The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.

A CRASH COURSE FOR SUCCESS • Play to win and not to lose. • Learn from other people's mistakes. • Associate with people of high moral character. • Give more than you get. • Don't look for something for nothing. • Always think long term. • Evaluate your strengths and build on them. • Always keep the larger picture in mind when making a decision. • Never compromise your integrity.

Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

Intellectual education influences the head and values-based education influences the heart.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.

You cannot learn to swim by reading a book. You have to get into the water.