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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

In ancient Judaism, discipleship was taken very seriously. It was taken so seriously that eager disciples would ty to follow their rabbi (teacher) everywhere they went. Why? Because they wanted to see...

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A...

One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.

Have you ever wondered the impact noise can have on our cognitive ability? Psychologist Arlene Bronzaft was curious to find out. Studying Public School 98 on the northern tip of Manhattan, Bronzaft fo...

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

The marvellous thing about learning from a story is that a story never ends, so our learning from it need not end either. p.98.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

It should be the goal of the writers of archaeology to make the dead come alive, not to put the living to sleep.

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Have you ever heard of the Greatest Books of the Western World collection? Published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1954, this comprehensive series was edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer J. A...

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

Peter Ustinov, the British actor, director, and playwright, once received an indignant letter from the headmaster of his son’s school. The letter complained that his son frequently disrupted lessons b...

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth.’