Quotes About Learning

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

Let us cry for the spilt milk , by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk , and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child's level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies dormant within the soul of the child.