education

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better. Freedom and choice are good, but a life steeped in thinking, learning, and doing is better. It__ not enough to say, __o, do whatever you like._ To help children become skilled thinkers and learners, to help them become people who make and do, we need a life centered around those experiences. We need to show them how to accomplish the things they want to do. We need to prepare them to make the life they want.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

What I learned on my own I still remember

To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on _ not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment__ notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person__ thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms_ And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships__ sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you__l learn all about when you__e older and don__ care anymore.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.