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Quotes About Learning

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.
~ Charlotte Mason
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
~ E. W. Howe
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.
~ Pythagoras
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
~ Geoffrey Canada
In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.
~ Keith Johnstone
What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
~ Dalai Lama
By seeking and blundering we learn.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
~ Antisthenes
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
~ Spike Milligan
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
~ Dennis Miller
Education is a vaccine for violence.
~ Edward James Olmos
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
~ William James
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
~ William Congreve
Education is the best provision for old age.
~ Aristotle
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
~ Alan Greenspan
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
~ Carl Sagan
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
~ Sam Houston
If children have interest, then Education happens
~ Sugata Mitra
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.
~ Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot