“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
-Derek Bok

“Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein

“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
-Stephen R. Covey

… and as Brian Herbert once said; “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”

If we are to truly to evolve and grow, it’s not enough to read about concepts. We must also incorporate them into our lives. Unless they are applied, and unless their worth is verified and validated through personal experience, their influence will be minimal. To really be effective, learning also has to be experiential. We must act upon ideas for them to be fully understood and eventually integrated. And then they need to be reinforced so that the new habits and orientations can be cultivated.

There are things in life that we simply must experience in order to know.

“One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world.”
-Arnold Glasow

“Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.”
-Mary Beard

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
-Winston Churchill

“Learn continually – there’s always one more thing to learn!”
-Steve Jobs

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
-Albert Einstein

“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.”
-Lin Pernille

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
-Malcolm X

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
-Colin Powell

and remember…

“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.”
-Washington Irving