Quotes About Learning

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better—not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.

everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.

I'm sure I could have read the entire four-thousand-page plot summarized in four hundred words on Wikipedia, or I could simply walk into any high school and ask a few questions of the first kid I find who isn't smoking crystal meth.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

The mistakes we make in our youth, she said solemnly, we pay for with the rest of our lives.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore. I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

We thought all this teach­ing was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

My whole life is about for­get­ting. It's my most valu­able job skill.

When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.

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