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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.
The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.