Route Our Parents Took To School

Learn by practice. - Martha Graham

We teach what we need to learn. - Gloria Steinem

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Who dares teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana

Failure is not failure if you learn from it. - Unknown

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

The minute you're not learning I believe you're dead. - Jack Nicholson

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. - Eleanor Roosevelt

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - Huey P. Newton

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

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. - Seneca

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it. - Vincent van Gogh

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy trying to place the blame on someone else. - Unknown

If you learn to listen for clues as to how I feel instead of what I say, you will be able to understand me much better. - Mara Botonis

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

As we grow up we think we lose our friends. But the truth is that we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are. - Unknown

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. - Bill Tammeus