Quotes About Learning

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

[P]eople tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over.

But one thing, at least, is certain, that no system can be satisfactory, much less successful, which does not provide for the healthy training of the whole being of the child, dividing and distinguishing mental and bodily exercise if it will, but at the same time co-ordinating them in due relations to each other...

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!

At a certain age some people's minds close up. Then they live on their intellectual fat.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

We shall advance when we have learned humility; when we have learned to seek truth, to reveal it and publish it; when we care more for that than for the privilege of arguing about ideas in a fog of uncertainty.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

I suggested that he should write out the whole affair from beginning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

The printing press is the mother of errors.

You should write and read all day...

Paper is patient.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.