Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

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.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

We teach what we need to learn.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.