Quotes About Learning

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Rise by learning. Knowledge is never bought on counters or sold in any store, knowledge is the transferred Light from teacher to student...

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach