There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.