Book learning Quote by Howard Zinn

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other.…

— Howard Zinn

“True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.”

— R. David Lankes

“A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it”

— Mike Rose

“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to…

— Michael F.D. Young

“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.”

— Mark Bauerlein

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A…

— Charles Platt

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more…

— Brian McLaren

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Education provide enlightenment for one's life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

— Louis Nizer

Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests,…

— Ernest L. Boyer