The most important thing a student can learn is the ability to keep on learning

“As the economic arena has been globalizing, openness and flexibility have become prerequisites for progress, and success has gone more and more to those who can connect and respond. Specialized expertise, pragmatic temperament, mental resourcefulness—these are increasingly the keys to effective leadership—along with a capacity for intellectual humility which keeps one’s mind constantly open to a variety of viewpoints and welcomes pluralistic exchange.

In such a world, the most important thing a student can learn is the ability to keep on learning.”

His Highness the Aga Khan – speech at the Foundation Laying Ceremony of the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad, India on 22nd September 2006

Source:
http://www.akdn.org/speeches/2006september22.htm