Learning Quotes - Page 37

• If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Writing, Way

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• I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Senior, Years

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Gentleman, Examination

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.24, Macmillan

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• To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
  Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivation, Knowledge

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.105, Chinese University Press

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• He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Intelligent, Taoism

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Order, Understanding, May

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• Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

  Aeschylus

  Science, Youth, Teach

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

  Erich Fromm

  Education, Children, Homeschooling

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• My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Ideas, Mind

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Generations

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• In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

  Alvin Toffler

  Writing, Illiterate Person, Years

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• It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Teaching, Essence

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

  Tom Freston

  Kids, Home, Mtv

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• I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

  Vladimir K. Zworykin

  Dream, Children, Would Be

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• He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Teach, Oversight

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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• He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

  Georg Simmel

  Educated, Know How, Knows

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

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  Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

  Paulo Freire

  Hopeful, Inquiry, World

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Baby, School

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Silly, Cutting

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• I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Exercise, Competition

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