The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
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The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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