Learning Quotes

"In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success if you are willing to learn from it" "Life will bring you the same challenges, the same problems, the same issues until you learn your lesson." "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "Be curious, not judgmental" "Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information" "Education is an act of love thus an act of courage" "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." "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." "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." "The zone of proximal development defines those functions that have not yet matured but are in the process of maturation" "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "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" "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "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" "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for" "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth" "I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing" "A child miseducated is a child lost"