Beware of the man who works hard to learn somethi
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
There are many things which we can afford to forg
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There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepar
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
You don't understand anything until you learn it
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
No matter how one may think himself accomplished,
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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.
Every act of conscious learning requires the will
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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.
His studies were pursued but never effectually ov
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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a ques
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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The important thing is not so much that every chi
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
You learn something every day if you pay attentio
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You learn something every day if you pay attention.
I find four great classes of students: The
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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.
The best of my education has come from the public
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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.
Get over the idea that only children should spend
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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Learning without thought is labor lost.
It's what you learn after you know it all that co
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A single conversation with a wise man is better t
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone w
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Some people will never learn anything, for this r
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Children have to be educated, but they have also
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
It is important that students bring a certain rag
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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