Anant Agarwal Quotes

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Having students was so inspiring.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Read in order to live.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

Learning is finding out what you already know.