Learning Purpose Quotes

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.