Quotes on Teachability

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The most important thing about education is appetite.