Quotes About Learning

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Education is the great engine to personal development.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

If children have interests, then education happens.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.