Learning Quotes
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
dr. seuss
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
bruce lee— Striking Thoughts (2000, p. 5)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
helen keller— The Story of My Life (1902)
Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo stalk from a bamboo stalk.
Matsuo Basho— Attributed, quoted in On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho (translated by Lucien Stryk), introduction.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
bill gates— Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)
When students' language, culture and experience are ignored or excluded in classroom interactions, students are immediately starting from a disadvantage. Everything they have learned about life and the world up to this point is being dismissed as irrelevant to school learning; there are few points of connection to curriculum materials or instruction and so students are expected to learn in an experiential vacuum. Students' silence and nonparticipation under these conditions have frequently been interpreted as lack of academic ability or effort, and teachers’ interactions with students have reflected a pattern of low expectations which become self-fulfilling.
jim cummins— Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society (1996), pp. 2-3
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom bodett— American author, politician, voice actor, and radio host
I have learnt much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students.
— Rabi Hanina, Ta'anit 7a.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
chuck grassley— United States Senator from Iowa, serving since 1981
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
chinua achebe— Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930 - 2013)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
aldous huxley— A Case of Voluntary Ignorance (1959).
"The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."
— John Holt, in 'Growing Without Schooling' magazine #40.
"It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories."
— Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 394.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
— Æschylus, Agamemnon. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Studies.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
— Confucius, Analects, Book II, Chapter XV.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
charles godfrey leland— Charles Godfrey Leland, The Music-lesson of Confucius.
I’ve learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough – I’m Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 6, said by Hermione Granger (1997).
The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
Richard DuFour— American educational researcher (1947 - 2017)
