Aristotle Quotes

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

To teach is to learn twice.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.