Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Few things are as essential as education.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.