Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

The brain is constantly adapting.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Education forms the common mind.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

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.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.