quotations about learning
Learning is better worth than houses or land.
GEORGE CRABBE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
All learning is derived from things previously known.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
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
To be silent oft is to learn.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
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"
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love
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
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
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Morituri Salutamus", Poems and Other Writings
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
Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.
DAVID A. KOLB
Building a Learning Community
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 learned man is only useful to the learned.
JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
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
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTY
Learning to Fly
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