Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

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

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

While we teach, we learn.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I have studied at the school of the world.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.