Top 81 Educational Learning Quotes
#1. Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#3. Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.
Paula Polk Lillard
#6. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.
Anna Howard Shaw
#8. Adding FUN to learning creates the best educational experience possible.
Tamara L. Chilver
#9. A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future
Drew Gilpin Faust
#11. We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen.
Sugata Mitra
#12. To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh; to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#13. There is no greater learning process than to teach.
Robert Muller
#14. My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
George Bernard Shaw
#17. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
#18. Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
Ray Kurzweil
#19. Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for ourselves, and overcoming doubts about our ability to receive the education we want to achieve.
Ellen J. Barrier
#21. We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.
Polly Berrien Berends
#22. We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.
Charles Handy
#23. The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#24. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
Kofi Annan
#25. Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
Alfie Kohn
#26. I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
Mitchel Resnick
#27. Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
Oliver DeMille
#28. Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.
Galit Breen
#29. Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
Edwin Boring
#31. Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.
J. William Fulbright
#34. Among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
Paulo Freire
#36. When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.
Sandra Dodd
#38. Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
Alfie Kohn
#39. Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.
John Holt
#40. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.
Adam Fletcher
#41. Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
Neil Young
#42. All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
Plato
#43. If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
William Bennett
#44. Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#45. For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced
Henry A. Giroux
#46. I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. What is the best form of education? Isn't education which provided self-liberation and liberation of other individuals?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are.
John Holt
#51. Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
Wendy Kopp
#52. For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach
#53. Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
Sugata Mitra
#54. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H.L. Mencken
#55. Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
Thomas Paine
#56. School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)
Donovan L. Graham
#57. It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives
Rudolf Steiner
#59. An essential part of teaching
is to show how to enjoy learning.
Phil Mitchell
#60. Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#62. If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.
Dee Hock
#63. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner
#67. Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
Abdul Kalam
#68. The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple
#69. Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.
Amit Ray
#70. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#71. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
#72. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
Daniel Goleman
#73. Reading is the multiplier of success. Reading instantly gives you access to a treasure trove of wisdom and experience laid out by those who have gone before you, especially those who have already walked the road you're walking on right now.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#75. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Matina Horner
#76. Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
Sai Baba
#78. If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.
Jon Osborne
#79. Spending time to learn and to gather better information is what we do most in our lives. We go to school, spend time there, and learn things important in our life. We do this only for one reason, to be happy.
Auliq Ice
#80. We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
James Hillman
#81. Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
Andy Hargreaves
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