Quotes About Knowledge

A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education. It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn more themselves from the real world. From that moment on the majority always look for the most promising place the highest wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling always collapsing over lifes education.

Constant learning is the dream of the wise; stupidity however is the history of mankind. I am sure that one day the younger generation will be ready to read books again and will wonder why they didn't enjoy them before.

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in.

Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.

Who, when you got right down to it, knew a goddamned thing about love?

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

I don't even have a savings account because I don't know my mom's maiden name, and apparently that's the key to the whole thing.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five. And

If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five.

He turned the page. He said, This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world.

as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say under extreme duress. It was not something you could do anything with but it interested them all the same.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Lack of knowledge is dangerous

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?" Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already". "Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?" "I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.

With the insight that genuine literacy involves "reading the word and the world," renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development

He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.