Quotes About Learning

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.