Language Quote by Mak_786

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

— Frederick Douglass

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above…

— Jane Goodall

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

— Andy Andrews

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead…

— Aldous Huxley

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

— Sal Khan

People teach what they most need to learn.

— M. J. Ryan

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

— John Locke

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

— David Grinspoon

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

— Plato

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

— Quintilian