Being A Student: Week 4

Are you looking for me? 

I am in the next seat.

My shoulder is against yours.

you will not find me in the stupas, 

not in Indian shrine rooms, 

nor in synagogues, 

nor in cathedrals:

not in masses, 

nor kirtans, 

not in legs winding around your own neck, 

nor in eating nothing but vegetables.

When you really look for me, 

you will see me instantly —

you will find me in the tiniest house of time.

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? 

He is the breath inside the breath.

— Kabir

 

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
—Henry Thoureau

 

 

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

— Alan Wilson Watts

 

 

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

 

 

 

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

— Lemony Snicket 

 

 

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

 

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

— Gautama Buddha

 

 

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

— Albert Einstein

 

 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

– Gandhi

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
― Benjamin Franklin

 Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
― Richard P. Feynman

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
― Voltaire

 

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
― Doris Lessing

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

—Aristotle 

  

The knowledge of all things is possible
― Leonardo da Vinci

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

 ― J.M. Barrie

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.
― Albert Einstein

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
― Socrates

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

 ― Mahatma Gandhi

How to be a great student