One Hundred Seventy-Nine

He who does not increase Knowledge, decreases it. He who studies not is not worthy of life. – Hillel

Learning which does not advance each day will daily decrease. – Chinese proverb

One Hundred Seventy-Eight

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. – John Mason Brown

He has learned to no purpose that is not able to teach. – Samuel Johnson

One Hundred Seventy-Five

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. – Confucius

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
– Maria Mitchell

One Hundred Sixty-Seven

The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as graying accountants. - Laurent A. Daloz

One Hundred Sixty-Five

Education can train, but not create, intelligence.
– Edward McChesney Sait

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
– Eugene S. Wilson

One Hundred Sixty-Three

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
– Confucius

Much learning does not teach understanding.
– Heraclitus

One Hundred Sixty-Two

Students do not need to be labeled or measured by more than they are. They don't need more federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
– Marva Collins

If anything concerns me, it's the oversimplification of something as complex as assessment. My fear is that learning is becoming standardized. Learning is idiosyncratic. Learning and teaching is messy stuff. It doesn't fit into bubbles.
– Michele Forman (2001 Teacher of the Year)

One Hundred Fifty-Seven

A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning. – Carol B. Hillman

One Hundred Fifty-Three

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

One Hundred Fifty-One

All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
– Juvenal

Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education. – Abraham Flexner

One Hundred Forty-Eight

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom.
– Alfred North Whitehead

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. – Vernon Cooper

As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. – Barbara W. Winder

One Hundred Forty-Seven

A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning. – Carol B. Hillman

One Hundred Forty-Five

What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better. – John Holt

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Brooks Adams

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

One Hundred Thirty-Nine

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
– Thomas Moore

One Hundred Thirty-Eight

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. – Kurt Vonnegut

No man is the wiser for his learning. – John Selden

One Hundred Thirty-Six

The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. – Alice Miller

One Hundred Thirty-One

The greatest challenges facing both the arts and education are how to navigate the perilous course between adventure and discipline; how to respond to tradition without either rejecting it or becoming its slave. – Robert W. Corrigan

The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything — getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. – Rose Hoffman

One Hundred Thirty

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. – Kurt Vonnegut

No man is the wiser for his learning. – John Selden

One Hundred Twenty-Nine

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. – Alec Bourne

One Hundred Twenty-Seven

The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad… Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow. – Ivan Welton Fitzwater