Quotations: Education/Learning As the title suggestsn these quotations address the topics of Education and Learning. Quotations are sorted* by: Date Added Quotations can be sorted by: Date Added Star Rating Author's Name ***** "To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject." -Albert Einstein ***** "Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career." -Albert Einstein ***** "The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms." -Galen ***** "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." -Heinrich Heine ***** "Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune." -Jim Rohn ***** "Knowledge is not a commodity to be traded between expert and novice. Rather, it is a construction of ideas negotiated by the learner in a social setting." -Rosamar Garcia ***** "We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." -Bill Vaughn ***** "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde ***** "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -Samuel Johnson ***** "Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity." -Nancy Astor ***** "Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." -Henry Peter Brougham ***** "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them." -John Ruskin ***** "What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did." -??? ***** "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde ***** "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world." -Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky ***** "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." -Robert Frost Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "If little else, the brain is an educational toy." -Tom Robbins ***** "Only the educated are free." -Epictetus ***** "We cannot learn without pain." -Aristotle ***** "But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly." -Plato ***** "If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say "How do you figger that!" real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk." -Jack Handey ***** "I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory." -Jack Handey ***** "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant ***** "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving." -Russell Green ***** "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." -Robert Frost ***** "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -Malcolm S. Forbes ***** "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -Anatole France ***** "Learning is finding out what you already know." -Richard Bach ***** "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers." -Kahlil Gibran ***** "He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves." -A. P. Gouthey ***** "Practice is the best of all instructors." -Publilius Syrus ***** "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -Confucius Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "When the student is ready... the lesson appears." -Gene Oliver ***** "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." -Denis Diderot ***** "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -Alvin Toffler ***** "The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit." -Samuel Johnson ***** "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." -Bishop Creighton ***** "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." -John F. Kennedy ***** "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." -Bill Beattie ***** "The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." -Robert M. Hutchins ***** "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." -Igor Stravinsky ***** "Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way." -Robert Heinlein ***** "Belief gets in the way of learning." -Robert Heinlein ***** "We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ***** "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." -Albert Einstein ***** "He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever." -Tom J. Connelly Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague." -William Safire's Great Rules of Writing ***** "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." -William Hazlitt 50 quotes in this category Return to The Quotation Station main page.