Learning Quotes

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can do what we ought to do, only by great grace that comes from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The degree of your desire determines your dedication.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can you imagine a world without books to read?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is end result of many combats.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A willing spirit, a determined effort.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education leads to intellectual life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you ought to know, educate yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is my toughest time but the greatest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education must be an equal opportunity for all.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child ought to be educated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must endure willingly for the fulfillment dreams

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be daring to push your ideas forward.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Intelligence tests require that certain things be figured out, but the figuring out doesn’t count. If the figuring out leads to the right answer, then of course the right answer counts. But no tester will ever know and no score will ever reveal whether the right answer was a triumph of imagination and intellectual daring, or whether the child knew the right answer all along. In addition, the more time the child spends on figuring things out on the test, the less time there is for filling in the right answers; that is, the more you actually think to get the right answers on an intelligence test, the less intelligent the score will look.

~ Eleanor Duckworth

Mistakes are experiences. Without these experiences, there is no learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

~ A.s. Neill

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is a beautiful paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books is heavenly paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no lateness in life. Begin to pursue your dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read good books to improve your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

~ Eleanor Duckworth

Read a short story every day.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great books make a great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man has two educations – that which is given to him, and the other, that which he gives to himself. Of the tow kinds, the latter is by far the most valuable. Indeed all that is most worthy in a man, he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that, that constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught, seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

~ Richter

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

~ Eleanor Duckworth

Lift yourself to great heights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

you give your best for today, you create a greater tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It can be done. It will be done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

~ Terry Roberts