Muriel Spark Quotes

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Always educate yourself.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

I grow old learning something new every day.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

You never can stop learning.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.