Quotes About Learning

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. —ANATOLE FRANCE

history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.

Students of color do only slightly worse than white students in mathematics. If you'll pardon my grammar, nonwhite students do more worse in English and most worse in history.

our governments openly favored white supremacy and helped to create and maintain all-white communities. So did most of our banks, realtors, and police chiefs. If public relations offices, Chambers of Commerce, and local historical societies don't want us to know something, perhaps that something is worth learning. After all, how can we deal with something if we cannot even face it?

We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again. We must temper our national pride with critical self-knowledge

Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us.

Such titles differ from the titles of all other textbooks students read in high school or college. Chemistry books, for example, are called Chemistry or Principles of Chemistry, not Triumph of the Molecule.

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb

Lack of knowledge is darker than night. ~ African Proverb

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

He, who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili Proverb

Knowledge is better than riches. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

Printing Revolution," and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution, and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

These are the lessons of being human, being vulnerable, and seeking wholeness with all that is. They are part of the pathway to power. The power lies in the wisdom and understanding of one's role in the Great Mystery, and in honouring every little thing as a teacher. The lessons taught are eternal and forever forthcoming. If the learning is over, so is the magic and the life.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

We receive an e-mail from a mother who describes how her son, at age two, learned all the state capitals as an afternoon diversion and later solved three-digit arithmetic problems when he was bored in his stroller.

Learning becomes a joy when children have what we call "aha!" moments.

All kids—low-achievers, high-achievers, and those in the middle—deserve to have their educational needs met.

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

We also know that children learn best when surrounded by their intellectual peers.

If we observe the nature, we well learn too many things which human kind may never teach us.

And how did you learn to bake like that?" "It was in the '60s in Cambridge," Ginger said with a faraway look in her eyes.

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.