George Santayana Quotes

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

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.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

Everything is educational.

By playing, you learn.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

We cannot learn men from books.