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Learning Quotes by John Holt
- Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we…
- We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty…
- It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion…
- Schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that…
- The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.
More Learning Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus