quotations about learning
Learning is better worth than houses or land.
GEORGE CRABBE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Research has shown time and again that children need opportunities to move in class. Memory and movement are linked, and the body is a tool of learning, not a roadblock to or a detour away from it.
LARA N. DOTSON-RENTA
"Why Young Kids Learn Through Movement", The Atlantic, May 19, 2016
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most mischievous.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
All learning is derived from things previously known.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
A medieval scholar would faint at the thought of all the educational content on the Web. On YouTube alone, you can learn about everything from boiling an egg to building a space station.
DENISE WYDRA
"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a certain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world.
ACTON
Acton; Or, the Circle of Life
The learning of facts based on method and recall is no longer appropriate. Skilled employees of the future need to know where to find information -- and how to use it.
STAFF WRITER
"Constant learning is not just for kids now", Sheffield Telegraph, May 4, 2016
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love
To be silent oft is to learn.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.
GEORGE ADE
"The Juvenile and Mankind", Knocking the Neighbors
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
RICHARD BACH
The Bridge Across Forever
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
DR. SEUSS
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
The learned man is only useful to the learned.
JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.
GUY LEFRANCOIS
Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
DORIS LESSING
The Four-Gated City