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celebrating 15 years online 1998-2013
Quotations about Learning
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ~Martin H. Fischer Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ~H.G. Wells I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~Dana Stewart Scott His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. ~H.G. Wells The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Learning without thought is labor lost. ~Confucius The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels. ~Martin H. Fischer The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~Henry S. Haskins We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~Lloyd Alexander You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan
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