Quotes About Learning

According to the Progressives, education is to be not subject-centered, but child-centered. ("We don't teach history, we teach Johnny.")

So the first issue of a proper method is always set the proper context. What are you counting on? What do you already know by the time you get to this point? What are you taking for granted that enables you to study this particular topic?

over me, I experienced the same thrill and amazement as when I had my first glimpse of the bright lights of Konakry. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to learn to do this wondrous thing myself.6

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.

He who can copy can do.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Los je ucenik onaj, koji je ne nadmasi svog ucitelja.

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.