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LEARNING: One of the best reasons to learn something is to give it away. (Unknown Source)
LEARNING: The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue. (Unknown Source)
LEARNING: 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)
LEARNING: Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. (John Wolfenden, British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985)
LEARNING: 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)
LEARNING: 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)
LEARNING: Men learn while they teach. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCE–AD 65)
LEARNING: 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)