Quotes about Learning
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
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— CS Lewis