Quotes on Lifelong Learning

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 learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

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.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

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

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

Change is the end result of all true learning.