4,503 Quotes About Learning

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Experience is the teacher of true education.

Wisdom accumulates in the cracks of personal experience and the crevices of bad judgments.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)