Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

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

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

We teach what we need to learn.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.