Free Learning Quotes

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.… when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers; by disbursing universities, and by censoring news and literature and art; an added burden, an added burden is placed on those countries where the courts of free thought and free learning still burn bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Everyone should be free to learn; knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

There are no national frontiers to learning.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers.

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

Choose O traveler if thou wilt drink thou must also pay money. But if thou wilt learn, those will have what they seek for nothing..

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people

I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children to learn and not letting parents be too doctrinaire in indoctrinating their children.