Adult Learning Quotes:

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

- David A. Kolb

source: David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, Joyce Osland (1991). “Organizational behavior: an experiential approach”

topic: Teacher, Learning, Giving, Adult Learning

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

- W. Edwards Deming

source: "Deming The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, 1995.

topic: Improvement, Compulsory, Inspirational Learning, Self Education, Good Teaching

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

topic: Graduation, Wisdom, Diversity, Learning English, Self Education

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

- Paulo Freire

source: Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Educational, Learning, Creativity, Younger Generation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Happiness, Students And Education, Education System

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Learning Environment, Education System

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

- Anatole France

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Education, Intellectual Curiosity, Intelligence And Education

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Educational

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

- Donald Woods Winnicott

source: Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

topic: Children, Self, Play, Children Playing, Child Development

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Love, Inspirational, Sweet, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading