Terence Tao Quotes

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

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Education forms the common mind.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

...don't spoil my learning process!

I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Fear dims when you learn things.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.