Quotes About Learning

it's poetry that's taught me everything I know. Poetry has shown me the world; I owe a debt of gratitude to poetry for the love I feel for nature, the earth, the trees, the ocean. Before I had read any poetry I resembled nothing so much as a blind woman—and a mute one, too, because I had no idea how to put my thoughts in order, no idea how to speak, the words wouldn't come. Poetry taught me how to talk.

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If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

she learned words that rolled from her tongue when no one was listening. Firns and striations. Cirques and moraines. Adulation. Sublimation. She fell asleep to their music, and she woke to it. Chatter marks, eskers, and drumlins. Truncated spurs. Corries and tarns. Kames. Eolian loess. Katabatic winds.

There is a difference between a learned man and a man of learning. A learned man is tied to the knowledge of the past. A man of learning is curious about the present. A learned man is bent over with dead wood of knowledge, like an aging tree. A man of learning is vibrant and inquisitive, like a green twig breaking out of the soil after the rains

Technology does not create learning just as a hammer does not make a house. Technology simplifies or amplifies our learning capacity. A microscope enables us to see the micro world. A telescope helps us see the macro world. It is not the microscope or telescope that sees. The two instruments are just accessories for our eyes. It is we who see through our human capacity of visual perception. Too much obsession with technology is like trying to design a house with a hammer in hand.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

An intellectual is a person who acquired the knowledge and knows where and how to use it.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

As a traveler, education is our way of life.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

Education is a chemical reaction between knowledge and the mind; the byproducts are new thoughts, new ideas, new perceptions, and new feelings.

Education is not a perfect process but it reduces the imperfection in our lives.

Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested. The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

Often we read to conform but not to educate.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.