Quotes on Love Of Learning

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.