Albert Einstein Quotes About Learning
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.
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I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Never memorize something that you can look up.
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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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