Quotes About Knowledge

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.