Quotes About Learning

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can't when they finish.

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.

The world is your school.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.

No one learns only by staring in the mirror. We all learn—and are sometimes transformed—by encountering differences that challenge our own experience and assumptions.

The deeper the change and the greater the amount of new learning required, the more resistance there will be and, thus, the greater the danger to those who lead.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.