Quotes About Learning

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

What you don't know would make a great book.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Enjoy and encourage your children's love of learning, but foster their play, responsibility, imagination, affection, and fun so they can grow as whole as well as gifted children.

Coping with competition requires understanding that winning and losing are always temporary occurrences. Children who learn to lose without being devastated and use failure experiences to grow will begin to achieve in the classroom and in society.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

We expect you to spill the milk, but it's really how you clean it up that matters.

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.