Famous quotes containing the words learning and/or centres:
“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“I perceive that in these woods the earliest settlements are, for various reasons, clustering about the lakes, but partly, I think, for the sake of the neighborhood as the oldest clearings. They are forest schools already established,—great centres of light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)