Learning, Education, and School

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

-Lou Holtz  

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

-Arisippus

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D. 

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt 

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and a knowledge.

-Albert Einstein 

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

-Roger Lewin

"You can easily count the seeds in an apple, but you may never be able to count the apples in a single seed."

-Author Unknown 

Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

-E.M. Forster 

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-Mark Twain 

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-Nelson Mandela 

The whole purpose of education is to turn me errors into windows.

-Sidney J. Harris

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

-William Butler Yeats 

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-Albert Einstein 

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.  

-Carl Rogers

What we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

-Angelina Schwindt 

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with and open one.

-Malcolm S. Forbes 

If the child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

-Igancio Estrada 

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, teach.

Author Unknown

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me an all understand.

-Chinese proverb

Learning is not a spectator sport.

-D Blocher

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.

-Barak Obama 

Education is not received. It is achieved.

-author unknown

And educate man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person, and entertain himself.

-Sydney Herbert Wood 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without using your temper or your self confidence.

-Robert Frost 

There is a grave defect in the school where the playground suggests happy and classroom disagreeable thoughts.

-John Spalding 

To be able to be caught up in the world of thought-that is being educated.

-Edith Hamilton 

To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.

-George Leonard 

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -  men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

-Jean Piaget

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