“We must learn from everything we do; we must exploit every
experience as a learning experience. Every institution and every person we have
access to becomes a resource. It is a lifelong process.” ~ Malcolm Knowles
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~
Albert Einstein
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention,
through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings
pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.” ~ Paulo Freire
“We learn because we want to learn, because it’s important to us,
because it’s natural, and because it’s impossible to live in the world and not
learn. Then along comes school to mess up a beautiful thing.” ~ Peggy Pirro
"For better or worse, we learn every day, wherever we are,
whatever we're doing, whoever we're with. We learn good things, useful things,
handy things - and we learn bad things, destructive things, things we might
someday wish we hadn't learned. Life's like that. On the whole, though,
learning serves us quite well, and we're constantly arranging and rearranging
our learning so it's more useful to us." ~ Helen Hegener
“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing
conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system
induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for
uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.” ~ Carl Rogers
“My ideal educational system would be a society in which knowledge
was widely free and widely and freely shared, and children were everywhere
trusted, respected, safe, valued, and welcomed.” ~ John Holt
“Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were
going to die tomorrow.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” ~ Alvin
Toffler
"[People] should be able to meet around a problem chosen and
defined by their own initiative. Creative, exploratory learning requires peers
currently puzzled about the same terms or problems.... The most radical
alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the
same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same
concern" ~ Ivan Illich
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our
bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ~ Mortimer Adler
“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and
pupil are located in the same individual.” ~ Arthur Koestler
"If our earth is to survive, we need to take responsibility for
what we do. Taking control of our own education is the first step.” ~ Heidi
Priesnitz