Quotes About Learning

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it's no different for me if I am read­ing poetry or if I am reading Marx. I try to get the beauty in the very act of reading, you see. This is for me something that many times teachers don't try to do.

He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.

what can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?

At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

ÖÄŸretmen öÄŸretmelidir. Bunu yapmak zorundad?r. Ama öÄŸretmek bilgiyi aktarmak deÄŸildir. Bir eyleme öÄŸretme eylemi denebilmesi için, öÄŸrenme eyleminin öÄŸrencilerin ayn? zamanda kendilerine öÄŸretilen bilgiyi üreten kiÅŸiler haline geldikleri, içeriÄŸi ya da bilinebilir nesneyi kavrama eyleminden önce ya da onunla eÅŸ zamanl? olarak gerçekleÅŸmesi gerekir.

Ninguém nasce feito. Vamos nos fazendo aos poucos na prática social de que tornamos parte

Sólo existe saber en la invención, en la reinvención, en la búsqueda inquieta, impaciente, permanente que los hombres realizan en el mundo, con el mundo y con otros.

Verbalistic lessons, reading requirements,3 the methods for evaluating "knowledge," the distance between the teacher and the taught, the criteria for promotion: everything in this ready-to-wear approach serves to obviate thinking.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

On the other hand, you know that it's possible to do more. You cannot accept being immobilized because you think that you've finished. You experience the very nature of being a human being-that is, unfinished, constantly in search.

eu gosto de ser humano, porque, inacabado, eu sei que sou um estafador, mas, ciente do incompleto, eu sei que posso ir mais longe.

Personne n'éduque autrui, personne ne s'éduque seul, les hommes s'éduquent ensemble par l'intermédiaire du monde.

Ler, não é caminhar sobre as letras, mas interpretar o mundo e poder lançar sua palavra sobre ele, interferir no mundo pela ação.

Mais do que ser educando por causa de uma razão qualquer, o educando precisa tornar-se educando assumindo-se como sujeito cognoscente e não como incidência do discurso do educador. Nisto é que reside, em última análise, a grande importância política do ato de ensinar.

Não nego a competência, por outro lado, de certos arrogantes, mas lamento neles a ausência de simplicidade que, não diminuindo em nada seu saber, os faria gente melhor. Gente mais gente.

Self-sufficiency is incompatible with dialogue. Men and women who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world. Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter. At the point of encounter there are neither utter ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

For the dialogical, problem-posing teacher-student, the program content of education is neither a gift nor an imposition—bits of information to be deposited in the students—but rather the organized, systematized, and developed "re-presentation" to individuals of the things about which they want to know more.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.

Understanding is a delaying tactic…," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.