Learning Quotes

Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.

~ Debasish Mridha

A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes.

~ Debasish Mridha

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

~ Donovan L. Graham

The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.

~ Debasish Mridha

Learning is the only game worth playing in life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

~ Genesis Quihuis

School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don’t want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers…

~ Drexel Deal

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Real education changes you on the inside.

~ Edward Mooney

To reach a child's mind, first reach a child's heart.

~ Edward Mooney

He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.

~ Hermann Hesse

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.

~ Ken Poirot

If we knew all the answers, there will be no research.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you are still breathing, don not stop learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.

~ Gloria Steinem

If you are still breathing, do not stop learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare plays function as an inoculation – that is, you get exposed to 'half-dead Shakespeare virus', and it keeps you from ever loving Shakespeare again, your whole life long. It would be much better if they didn't do that at all!Because [the students] have no linguistic preparation for it, and no cultural or historical preparation for it. They've not been reading English poetry, so the language strikes them as completely bizarre […] and they have no historical place to put it, so they don't know what's going on. All they know is that they're 'supposed to like it'.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

Education gives light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How can we stop learning, if we still have breath?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature gives great light and great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your universe grows when you are learning.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be an educator, teach and keep learning.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

~ Debasish Mridha

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the key to liberty.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be creative than curious.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

~ John Taylor Gatto

I wonder how many books you have read?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read enough books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no substitute for education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-study is the key to success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am still young to keep learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita