LEARNING QUOTES III

quotations about learning

The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.

GUY LEFRANCOIS

Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said


He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion

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Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse.

JOHN GARTH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

DAVID A. KOLB

Building a Learning Community


As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.

CLINT EASTWOOD

attributed, A Quiet Strength

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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

DORIS LESSING

The Four-Gated City

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Out of too much learning cometh heresy.

POPE SIXTUS IV

attributed, Day's Collacon


Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

AKBAR

attributed, Day's Collacon


It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

DANA LIGHTMAN

Power Optimism

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Science Past, Science Future

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Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of the Wise Man"

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

ABIGAIL ADAMS

letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780

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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The best education happens when educators are paid more money and are able to educate less learners -- the opposite of productivity.

JOSHUA KIM

"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016


Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

LA HARPE

attributed, Day's Collacon


To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.

ARISTOTLE

Poetics

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The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Atoms of Thought

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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Bioenergetics

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