John Stuart Mill Quotes

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I love learning new techniques.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Education is so important.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

I feel like, for me, I've become smarter. I've become a more intelligent wrestler. I've become a more intelligent performer, and I think that shows.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

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

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

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

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.