Learning Quotes
Nothing hinders learning something so much, as to think that you already know it.
If you get kicked in the head by a mule, it is probably your fault.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Learning takes place when you figure something out for yourself.
15 The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps.
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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.
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