Quotes About Learning

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.