Edward Cocker Quotes

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

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

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I think you never stop learning.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

You keep learning all the time.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

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

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.