Best Learning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.”

Knows Important Kids Grows Break Learning Fine Exciting Worried Instruction What's Important

Author:Michael Dell

“I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.”

Ifs Way Made I Can Facts Able School Given Learning Taught Understood Pops Math Honestly Despite Grades Public School Good Grades Quiz

Author:Jessica Bowman

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.”

Source: Theory and History

“The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

Ability Learning Teaching Grades Something New Competence Advancement Pupils Schooled Homeschooling Diploma Fluency

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

Way Needs Light Jobs Teach Learning Generations Shining Obvious Faster Empowering New Generation

Author:Seth Godin

“If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”

Men Character Motivational Fear Wealth Learning Genius Envy Trusted Envied

Author:Alfred Adler

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.”

Important Dream Enjoy Ability Laughing Learning Talent Pursuit Your Dreams Laugh At Yourself

Author:Amy Grant

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

Men Motivational Realizing Learning Victory Succeed Adversity Preparation Learning From Failure

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.”

Motivational Learning Students Edges Something New

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.”

Book Truth Growth Numbers Learning Variety Sermons Frequency Earnestness

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Learn that the present hour alone is man's.”

Men Life Hours Learning

Book:Irene: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mr. Samuel Johnson

Source: Irene: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. By Mr. Samuel Johnson

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”

Love Life Attitude Learning Love You Self Love Forgiving Gentle Love Yourself Forgive Yourself Love Yourself More Compassion For Yourself Learn To Love Yourself

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.”

Way Children Funny Inspiring Money Learning Stupid Our Children Investment Saving Your Children Savings Funny Money Wise Money Old Money

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.”

Children Persons Parent Learning Childhood Baby Parenting

Author:Benjamin Spock

“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”

Inspirational Firsts Learning Patience Having Patience Short Patience Keep Patience

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”

Action Peace Wealth Justice Kindness Learning Healthy Unique Concrete Goodness And Kindness Health Wealth

Author:Benjamin Jowett

“Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.”

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

Inspirational Mind Growth Quality Knowledge Learning Dignity Determine Quantity Personal Dignity Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Book:Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

“It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.”

Men Science Learning Humour Clean Mathematical Stink

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”

“If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Able Evil Learning Teaching Strength Criticism Educational Acquire Remove Criticism Of Others Criticism And Praise

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.”

Ifs Inspirational Success Growth Mistake Learning Safe Uplifting Achieved Success

Author:John C. Maxwell

“In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

Men Should Wisdom Might Truth Order Speak Learning Taught Speak The Truth

Book:The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”

Inspirational Wisdom Motivational Past Mistake Learning Lessons Errors Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Tryon Edwards

“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”

Years Challenges Learning Ten Adversity Cancer Contentment Agony

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Self Philosophy Business Practice Learning Impossible Conceit Conceited

Author:Epictetus

“Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.”

Self Grows Sin Results Business Learning Becoming Transformation Complexes Favors Setting Settings Becoming More Unselfish Old Self