LEARNING QUOTES

quotations about learning

Education is a sorting hat. Those who "do well"--who perform on tests at or above age-normed standards--are destined for one sort of future (Ravenclaw), whereas those who do not are channeled into a different track (Hufflepuff). There's no accommodation for variations in learning pace, developmental stage, or test-taking ability. What would happen if we assumed that with the right education, anyone could learn anything?

DENISE WYDRA

"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016


Live and learn.

AMERICAN PROVERB


I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

JOE ABERCROMBIE

Last Argument of Kings


New insights from cognitive and learning science, coupled with the tremendous power of educational software, can help every learner succeed. They can also eliminate tremendous waste from the system--all those hours prodding students to pay attention and stay on task, when the task was the wrong one all along.

DENISE WYDRA

"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016


There is no better way to learn than to teach.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Major Barbara

Tags: George Bernard Shaw


To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

R. DODSLEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects


Do something with what you learn.... Reading, listening and learning is pointless without doing, applying, sharing or implementing.

MAARTEN ALBARDA

"What Is Your Learning Plan?", MediaPost, May 16, 2016


The learned man has always riches within himself.

PHAEDRUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Phaedrus


Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

POPE PIUS II

attributed, Day's Collacon


Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

Tags: Thomas Jefferson


We often learn--by unlearning.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Choice Is Yours

Tags: John C. Maxwell


The three foundations of learning are seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.

CATHERALL

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is only by amusing oneself that one can learn.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Tags: Anatole France


By learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

TOM STOPPARD

The Invention of Love

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Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

Tags: S. M. Stirling


It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

EPICTETUS

Discourses

Tags: Epictetus