“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”
Growing Without Schooling magazine, no. 40 (1984).
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“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”
The Learner

Source: Systems Design of Education (1991), p. 110

“I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.”
"Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002)
p 33 as cited in: D. Psillos (2003) Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society. p. 44.
Conversation, Cognition and Learning (1975)
Pask (1976) "Conversational techniques in the study and practice of education", In: British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 46, p. 24.