Equal Quote by Frances Wright

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

— Samuel Johnson

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held…

— Thomas Carlyle

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

— Thomas Lodge

What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge…

— Norman Angell

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of…

— Napoleon Hill

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on…

— Jose Marti

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

— Henry Ford

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not…

— Austin Osman Spare