John H. Lienhard Quotes

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Nobody ever learns anything.

Enter to learn; depart to serve.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

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

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation