LearnHub

lechuck said:

We have made educational quotes a prominent theme here at LearnHub. We often attach them to our newsletters and you will always find a random quote at the bottom any LearnHub page.

What is your favorite Educational quote?

Here are a few quotes I find interesting:

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Sir Winston Churchill

“In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be 
stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.” — Charles T. Tart

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” — Montaigne

“The mind is like a parachute – it works only when it is open.” — Unknown

csrd said:

” If gold rusts what shall iron do?”. _ Geoffery Chaucer

” A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.” _ Josh S. Hinds

” The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness,but thinking of strength.” _ Vivekananda.

” What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.” _ Vivekananda.

” To err is human, but to keep on erring is inhuman.” _ Unknown (its me).

” Knowledge is nothing but finding unity in the midst of diversity.” _ Vivekananda.

” Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man”. _ Vivekananda.

” Its better to strive to be lesser and lesser imperfect so that others come to know what is growing in perfection.” _ Unknown (its me).

” The A B C of life is : Always Be Careful, Caring, Considerate and Conscious.” _ Unknown( ......).

csrd said:

The “Edit” facility may be provided here also. My error pricks me, as it would prick any lover of Literature, when I find that Chaucer’s name is not spelt correctly.

Please read, Geofrrey Chaucer.

vidmisha said:

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?

-M.K. GANDHI

vidmisha said:

“I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny ? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj (i.e. self-rule) for the hungry and spiritually starving millions ?

Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.” – Mahatma Gandhi

csrd said:

It may be noted that this page is to “Post your Favourite Educational Quote”, and not a passage, I suppose.

Further, use the name of the person, whose words are quotted, consistantly. If it is once M.K. Gandhi, then let it be for all his quotes. Better make it Mohandas K. Gandhi or still better, Mahatma Gandhi.

Peter Blomert said:

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

csrd said:

” From the words of the poet men take what meanings please them; yet their last meaning points to thee”.

_ Rabindranath Tagore.

csrd said:

” Be good. See good. Speak good. Do good. This is the way to Godhood.” _ Sathya Sai.

” What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.” _ Buddha.

” It is better to fight with wise men than to have friendship with fools.” _ Native Indian Proverb.

” Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me, and I’ll understand.” _ Native North American Proverb.

” Life begins with listening and ends when listening is ended.” _ Unknown.

” No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” _ James Comer.

” Punctuality announces time sense; punctuations, good sense.” _ Unknown.

KathyGreen said:

Plato

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

bart said:

I adapted a quote from Coleridge (I replaced Soul by Learning) for my learners to set up a reflective portfolio/blog: ‘He looked at his own Learning with a Telescope. What seemed all irregular he saw and chewed to be beautiful Constellations and he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds within worlds’

By the way: the quote on ‘the mind is like a parachute’ is from Frank Zappa!

JohnPhilipGreen said in response to:

I’ve updated the LearnHub quote database to attribute the “mind is like a parachute…’ to Frank Zappa… you are right! Thanks Bart.

csrd said:

Earth Day is April 22.

The first Annual Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson to be a day for all communities around the world to renew their commitment to making world a cleaner, safer and healthier place for eveyone. ( What else than following up many such celebrations can activate global citizenship? ).

“What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?” _ Henry David Thoreau.

“Earth is the home for those who are magnanimous in thought, word and deed.” _ The Book of Manu.

mawstools said:

“The connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.” – George Siemens

Said another way, “Our capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known.” Also George Siemens

mawstools said:

I store my knowledge in my friends. – Karen Stephenson

KathyGreen said:

I really enjoyed your last quote. Have never heard it and it brought a flood of reminiscing for me, verifying the quotation.

csrd said in response to:

“A good friend is a good mirror at hand to see myself in good stead” . _ A good friend.

libin said:

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Whole Earth Catalog

csrd said:

“Nonsense is any day better than no sense.” _ A wise saying.

vidmisha said in response to:

I’m sorry but according to dictionary.com, a quote is :to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc. Please correct me if I am wrong.

lechuck said:

Vidmisha—csrd,

Any kind of quotation is fine! Passages are just as inspirational as phrases :)

csrd said:

Thank you, Vidmisha, lechuck.

“Brevity is the soul of wit”, made me unwittingly put mydeas( my ideas) over there.

Well, neither of us are wrong as we do not suffer from error in taste.

csrd said:

“Whatever retards the onward progress or helps the downfall is vice; whichever helps in coming up and becoming harmonized is virtue.” _ Vivekananda.

“The sum total of all ideas of help is God.” _ Vivekananda.

“God helps those who help themselves.” _ Unknown.

bhatnagarg said:

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ~ G. H. Hardy

bhatnagarg said:

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

bhatnagarg said:

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, it is a fire to be kindled. ~ Plutarch

csrd said:

“And now these three remain:faith,hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corintheans 13:13

“The easy thing is not always the right thing.” _ Unknown.

“Sometimes it’s better to burn out than just fade away.” _ Unknown.

“If you want to know the power of a habit, try to break one.” _ Unknown.

csrd said:

“All that is ancient need not be wisdom, all that is modern need not be foolishness.” _ Kaalidaasa.

csrd said:

“All roads lead to Rome. But there are no roads to God. And there need not be, for God does not require our roads to reach us.” _ Unknown.

vidmisha said:

“We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.”—Talmud

csrd said:

“Knowing is not enough;we must apply.Willing is not enough;we must do.” _ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.” _ Horace Mann

“The choices of impulsive people are driven by the immediate rewards.” _ Unknown.

derekeb said:

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” –Peter Drucker

Peter Blomert said:

Dear likeminded friends, do you have the same impression as I have?

It is great to read all these deep thoughts, but I just can’t get rid of the idea, that this would be an even more moving conversation if everybody gave just a few hints, which quote seems especially meaningful to her/him and why…

When did you first come across that quote, what idea or feeling were you struck by then and there, what was/is the impact of that special quote on you?

csrd said in response to:

Sharing at a deeper level what it means to me, the impact , rather the growing impact on me, would be certainly more engaging and equally demanding endeavour.

“Then and there”, I feel, is “Now and here” because all quotable quotes are and continue to be as fresh as the morning dew!

It would be going autobiographical a bit and that would be a “challenge” to open up.

Thank you, Peter for the probe…

oLahav said:

“I used to read, but it’s faster to make stuff up”- Wally from the Dilbert comics.

This is more of a life-style philosophy than a quote.

purushp said:

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but is braver for five minutes longer” – Anonymous

jackjr1 said:

Make a mess.

- Conan O’Brien