Quotes about Learning
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
— Robert Frost
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
— Erica Jong
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
— Oprah Winfrey
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
— Mark Twain
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
— George Eliot