Max Lerner Quotes

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The use of muscle is only good for running marathons these days. What workers need is a trained mind. Education is the most important thing that needs to be accomplished.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

Learn all you can learn. Never stop learning.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

We have to learn everything we do.

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