4,503 Quotes About Learning

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.