Quotes About Learning

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The best education in film is to make one

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.