Adult Education Quotes

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.

I believe that everyone has expertise to sell and that people want to purchase that knowledge in a convenient way. Just as Airbnb made people realize that an extra room in their home or apartment can be a source of income, the new Learning Annex provides a platform for people to monetize their knowledge. It’s an exciting time for online adult education and our new platform is the way to unify an otherwise fragmented market.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

Suffering is our best teacher because it hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip until we have learnt that particular lesson. Only then does suffering let go. If we haven’t learnt our lesson, we can be quite sure that the same lesson is going to come again, because life is nothing but an adult education class, If we don’t pass in any of the subjects, we just have to sit the examination again. Whatever lesson we have missed, we will get it again. That is why we find ourselves reacting to similar situations in similar ways many times.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

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

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.