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«The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.»
«The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Learning,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
attain
«The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.»
Author: Fred Astaire
(Actor, Choreographer, Dancer)
| About:
Learning,
Manners,
Reality
| Keywords:
good manners, hardest, job, kids, Kid The, manners, seeing
«The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom»
«The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Thinking
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, discipline, fill, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, powers, train
«The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Children,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
be given, The Wish
«The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach»
Author: Sophocles
| About:
Education,
Instinct,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
astray, reasonable, Reasonable man
«The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.»
«The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him»
«The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Learning
| Keywords:
at the most, compared, ignorant, with that
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