The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which s….
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have fai….
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish..
Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and puttin….
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors..
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think..
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, becau….
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line..
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savage….
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it o….
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning….
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest..
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does..
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? Y….
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, th….
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his t….
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value o….
The education of a man is never completed until he dies..
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind..
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the th….
Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you….