One of the best reasons to learn something is to give it away.

— Unknown Source

The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue.

— Unknown Source

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

— John Wolfenden, British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

— Ivan Illich, Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

— Leo Buscaglia, U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998

Men learn while they teach.

— Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCE–AD 65

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950
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