Quotes about Learning
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
— Mark Twain
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
— George Eliot
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
— John Milton
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous
I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.
— Barack Obama