Quotes on Learning

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.