Quotes about Learning

Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

There are no shortcuts in growing up. The path to maturity is long and arduous. Hurry is no virtue. There is no secret formula squirreled away that will make it easier or quicker. But stories help.

Our bodies are the means of providing our souls access to God in his revelation: eat this book. A friend reports to me that one of the early rabbis selected a different part of our bodies to make the same point; he insisted that the primary body part for taking in the word of God is not the ears but the feet. You learn God, he said, not through your ears but through your feet: follow the Rabbi.

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.