Quotes About Learning

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks.

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks. Once in

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?" "Ask away, young Jedi.

A history lesson disguised as a story,

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone. What then is a Master for? To make you see the uselessness of having one. Anthony de Mello

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes