The best teacher is the one who […] inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1873
What we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.
—Isaac Asimov, 1980
***
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
—Marvin Minsky, 2005
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
—Xun Kuang
5
One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you may know it, you have no
certainty until you try.
—Sophocles
6
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from tenets
of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
—William Harvey, 1628
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
—English proverb
***
To study and not think is waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
—Confucius, fifth century BC
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893
Sense comes with age.
—Spanish proverb
If youth only knew; if age only could.
—Henri Estienne, 1594
Wisdom comes, jump goes.
—Māris Liepa
7
5
Sometimes misattributed to Confucius, whose follower Xun Kuang was.
6
From his play Women of Trachis, whose first English translation was apparently published only in
1904.
7
As popularly attributed, without a date, to this ballet dancer famous for his jumps.
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—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1873
What we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.
—Isaac Asimov, 1980
***
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
—Marvin Minsky, 2005
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
—Xun Kuang
5
One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you may know it, you have no
certainty until you try.
—Sophocles
6
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from tenets
of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
—William Harvey, 1628
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
—English proverb
***
To study and not think is waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
—Confucius, fifth century BC
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893
Sense comes with age.
—Spanish proverb
If youth only knew; if age only could.
—Henri Estienne, 1594
Wisdom comes, jump goes.
—Māris Liepa
7
5
Sometimes misattributed to Confucius, whose follower Xun Kuang was.
6
From his play Women of Trachis, whose first English translation was apparently published only in
1904.
7
As popularly attributed, without a date, to this ballet dancer famous for his jumps.
On Education, Reading, and Knowledge
59