Quotes on “learning”

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.