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Quotes About Learning

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
~ John Stuart Mill
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
~ Adolf Hitler
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
~ George Santayana
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
~ Sugata Mitra
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
~ Allan Bloom
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
~ Ezekiel Emanuel
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
~ Chris Hedges
One of the best investments we can make in a child's life is high-quality early education.
~ Barack Obama
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
~ Plato
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
~ Edmund Barton
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
~ Maria Montessori
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~ Jacques Barzun
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
~ Mark Twain
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
~ John Locke
It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.
~ Sugata Mitra
This isn't higher education studying itself.
~ James Hunt
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
~ Richard Allington
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
~ Chanakya
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.
~ Robert Fulghum
There is no depth to education without art.
~ Amiri Baraka