Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

The acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

Reading maketh a full man.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.