African Languages are Full of Teachings: 21 African Proverbs on Learning

African Proverbs on Learning

1. Learning expands great souls. ~ Namibian proverb
2. To get lost is to learn the way. ~ African proverb
3. By crawling a child learns to stand. ~ African proverb
4. If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African proverb
5. He who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian proverb
6. Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili proverb
7. By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. ~ Buganda proverb
8. You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win. ~ African proverb
9. You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down. ~ Bateke proverb
10. The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat. ~ African proverb
11. What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn. ~African proverb
12. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. ~Ashanti proverb
13. One who causes others misfortune also teaches them wisdom. ~ African proverb
14. You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. ~Congolese proverb
15. What you learn is what you die with. ~ African proverb
16. Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone. ~Moroccan Proverb
17. When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~Ashanti Proverb
18. Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off. ~African Proverb
19. Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day. ~Malagasy Proverb
20. Traveling is learning. ~Kenyan Proverb
21. Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners. ~Swahili Proverb