In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.