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Quotes About Learning

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
~ Hyman Rickover
I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.
~ Cote de Pablo
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
~ Peter Ustinov
Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
~ Paulo Freire
There is no future without education.
~ Rosa Parks
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
~ William Glasser
There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.
~ Mark Twain
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
~ Anatole France
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
~ Oscar Wilde
The best marketing is education.
~ Regis McKenna
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
~ Edward Gibbon
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.
~ Solange Knowles
I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
~ Barack Obama
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
~ Jean Piaget
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
~ William Bennett
I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
~ Mitchel Resnick
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
~ Northrop Frye
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
~ Gary L. Francione
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
~ Maria Montessori
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
~ Aristotle