Quotes on Adult Learning

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.