Much learning does not teach understanding.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which read more

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the read more

The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.