Quotes on Learning

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.