Learning Quotes - Page 15

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.