What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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.
A different language is a different vision of life.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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