Plato Quotes

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.

I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn't really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.

I think you never leave what you learn.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

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

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.