Plato Quotes

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

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.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

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.

I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for toilet paper or diapers, I just really wanted to allow myself to go to school, to go to university without waitressing, because when I'm in a school environment I just really like to study and have the best grades and learn as much as I can.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

I would like my kids to study well.