You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother

Albert Einstein

Don’t just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade

James Bennis

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value

Oscar Wilde

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt

Patrick White

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something

Thomas H Huxley

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival

W Edwards Deming

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones

Dale Carnegie

Training adults is like driving a bus... if you do not take people to where they want to go, they get off

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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions

Charles Brower

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it

Canfield & Hansen

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail

Mark Twain

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward

Vernon Law

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten

B F Skinner

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all

Thomas Szasz

A wise person learns when he can. A fool learns when he must

Duke of Wellington

The difficulty lies not in new ideas but in escaping from the old ones which ramify into every corner of our minds

John Maynard Keynes

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand

Chinese proverb

I do not teach my pupils. I provide conditions in which they can learn

Albert Einstein

That which can be taught directly to another is relatively trivial, whereas things of significance can only be learnt

Carl Rogers

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding

Ambrose Bierce

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught

Winston Churchill

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other

Benjamin Franklin