7 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Learning

Eric Hoffer quotes on learning

62. To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

100. The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

101. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

104. An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

163. Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

179. Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

197. The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.