George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College.