Teach Our Children Well

Even while they teach, men learn. - Seneca

Governments never learn. Only people learn. - Milton Friedman

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know. - Albert Einstein

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. - Dalai Lama

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J Sawyer

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live. - Bob Dylan

Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Robert A. Heinlein

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. - Warren Buffett

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. - Simeon Poisson

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after. - Vernon S Law

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. - Jim Carrey

People are put into your life for reasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons. - Selena Gomez

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin. - Heinrich Heine

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Doctors are saying that each piece of bacon you eat takes 9 minutes off of your life. Based on that math, I should have died in 1732. - Unknown

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater