Quotes About Learning

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can

Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you dont. Its knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning.

Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?

You don't learn that, she said. It's just there. It sounds like he spent his whole life trying to unlearn it. Trying to forget it.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.