Horace Quotes

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

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.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

To teach is to learn twice.

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

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

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

The learning process continues until the day you die.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.