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Quotes About Learning

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.
~ Harry Gilbert
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
~ David Kahn
The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
~ Pat Conroy, South of Broad
My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you know the more you need to learn.
~ Unknown
Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future!
~ Err:509
Education provide enlightenment for one's life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
~ David Brooks
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
~ Will Durant
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
~ David Brooks
Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.
~ Andre Agassi, Open
I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.
~ Unknown
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.
~ William Zinsser
It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.
~ Debasish Mridha
Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.
~ Unknown
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.
~ Paul Bamikole
I learn, I earn.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.
~ Henry Handel Richardson
True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.
~ Uzoma Nnadi