Khalil Gibran Quotes

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.

A good learner learns from everything!

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.

This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.

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

I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

[Andy Griffith] is so great. He's just a dream. He's a beautiful man and so professional. I think he had more to say, script-wise, than anyone else, and when you're older it's not easy to memorize lines.