36 Metaphors for learning

I feel as if I were sitting with Mary at the feet of my Redeemer, hearing the music of His voice, and learning of Him to be meek and lowly."

With her, learning was always a passion; and, in passing, I may say she never thought herself too old for study and the acquisition of knowledge.

The boatman sat down on the bank, reflecting on the fate of the philosopher; and, as the beaver disappeared in the bend of the river, he rose up and gave vent to his reflections in the following terms: "I guess that gentleman was never taught much of the useful; learning is a good thing in its place, but I guess swimming is the thing on the Mississippi, fix it how you will.

But as if learning had been a forbidden fruit to me; scarce was I well settled in my work; before I met with another diversion

Learning was her passion and art her recreation.

Without it Learning is Pedantry, and Wit Impertinence; Virtue itself looks like Weakness; the best Parts only qualify a Man to be more sprightly in Errors, and active to his own Prejudice.

"Learning, without thought, is a snare; thought, without learning, is a danger.

While not a great lawyer, he must have been a studious one, for his legal learning was a large element in his future success.

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "To err is human, to forgive divine"; "A little learning is a dangerous thing,"these lines, and many more like them from the same source, have found their way into our common speech, and are used, without thinking of the author, whenever we need an apt quotation.

His ancestry numbers several distinguished persons; though the well-earned fame of Sir Walter Scott readers his pedigree comparatively uninteresting; inasmuch as it illustrates the saw of an olden poet, that Learning is an addition beyond Nobility of birth: honour of blood, Without the ornament of knowledge, is A glorious ignorance.

Hypocrisy and fraud ultimately will be detected; no enduring reputation is built upon a lie; sincerity and earnestness will call out respect, even from foes; learning and virtue are lights which are not hid under a bushel.

Theodore Parker's learning was undoubtedly a valuable possession to the community, but it was not worth the price of Theodore Parker's life.

The learning of to-day, the wisdom, the philosophy of to-day is profounder than that of any preceding century, and it is folly to overthrow it by, or compel it to give place to, the learning, the wisdom, the philosophy of departed and ruder ages.

We might then possibly see Learning become a Pleasure, and Children delighting themselves in that which now they abhor for coming upon such hard Terms to them: What would be a still greater Happiness arising from the Care of such Instructors, would be, that we should have no more Pedants, nor any bred to Learning who had not Genius for it.

The Neapolitan, whose name was Pippo; one of the indigent scholars, for a century since learning was rather the auxiliary than the foe of superstition, and a certain Nicklaus Wagner, a fat Bernese, who was the owner of most of the cheeses in the bark, were the chosen of the multitude on this occasion.

But then his learning was the sine qua non: he knew how to make the most of it; but I do not find by any dishonest means.'

Addressing myself to you, as teachers, I would say, mere book learning in physical science is a sham and a delusionwhat you teach, unless you wish to be impostors, that you must first know; and real knowledge in science means personal acquaintance with the facts, be they few or many.

" "Learning may be ruination," responded the Doge, "though it wouldn't have been in your case.

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"I soon got so my learning was a help to him in his work.

In what is my Lord Charles defective, Sir? unless deep Learning be a blemish in him, or well proportion'd limbs be mulcts in nature, or, what you only aim'd at, large Revenues, are, on the sudden, grown distasteful to you.

Her greatest learning is religion, and her thoughts are on her own sex, or on men, without casting the difference.

Learning is not a process of passive "soaking-in."

But vain our instruction, And blind we must be, Unless with our learning Be knowledge of Thee.

The learning of a Salmasius or a Burman, unless you are its master, will be your tyrant.

36 Metaphors for  learning