Quotes About Learning

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.