education

Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning
will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting.  But no matter what
path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning.  In some corner of your life,
you know more about something than anyone else on earth.  The true measure of
your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

Kent Nerburn

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden
flash of insight that leaves you a changed person,
not only changed, but for the better.

Arthur Gordon

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is
the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do,
when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not;
it is the first lesson that ought to be learned;
and however early a person’s training begins,
it is probably the last lesson he or she learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Education should be of value to men and women both as private individuals
and as free, self-reliant, and responsible members of the community to which
they belong.  It should help them, as individuals, to grow in self-mastery and
personal depth, to develop wider and deeper appreciations, to acquire
an enthusiasm for hard work, to love good talk and good books,
to delight in the adventures of intellectual curiosity, to become fair-minded,
open-minded, and generous in all their human responses.

American Association of Colleges

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Most people are just trying to get through the day.  Be committed to learn to get
from the day.  Don’t just get through it; get from it.  Learn from it.  Let the
day teach you.  Join the university of life.  What a difference that will make
in your future.  Commit yourself to learning.  Commit yourself to absorbing.
Be like a sponge.  Get it.  Don’t miss it.

Jim Rohn

People only begin to grow when they cease to whine and revile, and commence
to search for the hidden justice which regulates their lives.  And as they adapt
their minds to that regulating factor, they cease to accuse others as the cause
of their condition, and build themselves up in strong and noble thoughts.  They
cease to kick against circumstances, but begin to use them as aids to their more
rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden
powers and possibilities within themselves.

James Allen

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than
one class of topics, one row of shelves.  I like a person who
likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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
do know and what you don’t.  It’s knowing where to go to find out what you
need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.

William Feather

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts.
Interesting thoughts can only live in cultivated minds.  Those who decide
to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music,
good books, good pictures, good plays at the theater, good company,
good conversation—what are they?  They are the happiest people
in the world; and they are not only happy in themselves,
they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

Of course, we're obligated to improve ourselves only if
we want to make this world a better place.  If we don't
care about that, then we can spend our lives being
entertained passively, learning nothing new at all.
But then we're not fulfilling our responsibility
of contributing to the world.

tom walsh

Too much learning makes one proud.  One must bend
one's head, realizing the limitations of reason.
It can only take you to the gate and it has
to be left behind when you enter the realm
of the Spirit.  You have to unlearn what
you have learned and become as
simple and guileless as a child.

Papa Ramdas

You can be very, very good at anything you do, but excelling
does take work.  In societies in which we expect life to just 
fall into our laps somehow, we've lost the respect for the value
of developing ourselves, but if we're going to excel, not just succeed,
we must develop ourselves past the ordinary.  Reading a book a week
on a topic of our choice will make us one of the best-read people
in the field within a year.  Then you can solve problems and devise
ideas and plans much more easily and effectively than if you
never had tried to develop your abilities.

unattributed

When I learn something new--and it happens every day--I feel a little
more at home in the universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Bill Moyers

Marion Cran

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing
one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Huxley

Trees and stones will teach you that which
you can never learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Robert Fulghum

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything
to anyone.  I question the efficacy of teaching.  The only thing
that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn.  And maybe
a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows
people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

Carl Rogers

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct."
It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually
to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

M. Scott Peck

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

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching.  Written
teaching is a kind of food for your brain.  Of course it is necessary to take
some food for your brain, but it is more important
to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

Suzuki Roshi

Confucius said, "The young people should be good sons and daughters
at home, polite and respectful in society; they should be careful in their
conduct and faithful, love the people, and associate themselves with the
kind people.  If after learning all this, they still have the energy left,
let them read books.