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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
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In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.