John Holt Quotes

You always need to be curious and study.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Always educate yourself.