Learning Quotes - Page 16

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.