Quotes About Learning

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

if I could just have twenty seconds alone with younger, stupider me . . . But there are some mistakes you never get to take back. And there are some experiences there is no returning from.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

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Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

I guess. There were over a hundred and fifty kids in our class, so we definitely knew more than just each other.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.