quotations about learning
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Science Past, Science Future
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
RICHARD BACH
The Bridge Across Forever
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
BHARTRHARI
"The Praise of the Wise Man"
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
DORIS LESSING
The Four-Gated City
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Love
To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Mostly Harmless
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.
GUY LEFRANCOIS
Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTY
Learning to Fly
Learning, though it is useful when we know how to make a right use of it, yet, considered as in our own power, and to those who trust to it without seeking a superior guidance ... it is indeed like a sword in a madman's hands, which gives him the more opportunity of hurting himself than others.
JOHN NEWTON
Cardiphonia; or, The Utterance of the Heart
It's not really the SATs, the tests themselves, it's what they stand for. It's the scorched earth policy that they create. It's the focus on tedious technicality over inspiring ideas. It's making learning as nit-picky and as joyless as possible.
KATE BYRNE
"Sats are making learning nit-picky and joyless", TES News, May 3, 2016
Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse.
JOHN GARTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Education is best when it is bundled. When learning is bundled with living. Where hands--on practice is bundled with information and theory.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS
First Epistle to John Lapraik