Quotes About Learning

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

If you want to know the value of free inquiry and a secular, liberal arts education, look at the Middle East. Simple isn't it?

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

For a child of five, art is life and life is art... but once the child is in school they get separated--art becomes art and life becomes life.

When you decide that all your experiences are practice, you are in effect saying that you are both willing and able to learn from each experience.

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time.

you want most of all (see Psalm 84:11). Paul admitted that he had to "learn" the secret of contentment in every situation. So with all of us. That learning process can sometimes be painful, but it is worth all we have to go through to get that knowledge of God's new plan.

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table. "It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God.

The level of my worldly ignorance cannot easily be overestimated." Nor that of the damage that ignorance could do

But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime." His

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

The real problem is that humans do not yet know enough about wolves, even though these animals have been intensively studied now for more than forty years. This means that there are no "wolf experts." Instead, there are some people who know a good deal about wolves, but there is no one person who knows ALL about them.

The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another?

place, where man does not have respect-honour, no sources of income/employment, suitable well wishing friends/ relations, facilities for learning-education, such a place is most unsuitable. It should be left without any delay.

Chanakya says that those parents, who do not arrange for proper education of their children, are their worst enemies.

Any learning through which you cannot earn money is useless. If wealth is only amassed and not used, then it loses its importance.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

a child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled