Subject: Education » Learning (Page 3)

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract – teach him to deduct.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

(1911 – 1968) British politician & son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public; they can learn in private; in public they have to know.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

(1882 – 1950) American attorney, politician, liberal activist & actor

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Major: Area of study that no longer interests you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor