It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
My family has always valued my education.
I remember as a kid liking long, funny words. And often being into things like that can be perceived as square. But actually, as we know now that we're adults, it's really cool. The more knowledge you have, the better.
Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.
...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.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
I've never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn't measure anything meaningful - usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I'd just as quickly forget.
I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.
When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.
And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.
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.
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
