Learning Quotes

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "The greatest scholars are not the wisest men" "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "We are natural learners. Learning is our default state." "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "The power to question is the basis of all human progress" "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "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" "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "The zone of proximal development defines those functions that have not yet matured but are in the process of maturation" "The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." "Education is an act of love thus an act of courage" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "Be curious, not judgmental" "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."