Quotes About Learning

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

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.

Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent mind in its work of development. How marvelous it would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment of the child, if by understanding the needs of his physical life and by feeding his intellect, we could prolong the period of functioning of the absorbent mind!

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

But if I had not gone through that door, Nico Phelps would probably be in jail and Mr. Farrell would not be. And I would still think you can get through life safe and sound and pure- and actually have a life. I wouldn't know the only way not to make a mistake is to never do anything at all.

Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

books always trumped everything else.

Libro, libro. Cuando te pasen estas cosas, coge siempre un libro.

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

Your kind shouldn't come here. The change is too great for Seals. Yet you have chosen it and rejected your society, so you must learn quickly or perish.

We empower ourselves through knowledge.

one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.