Quotes About Learning

I knew it," cried Helen. "I told you so. It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.

So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise you're in difficulties. Every teacher should have a fund of ready information on which to draw; he should keep that fund supplied regularly by new experiences, new thoughts and discoveries, by reading and moving around among people from whom he can acquire such things.

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.

I shrug, and then we sit awhile without saying anything. Then he goes, 'Where'd you learn to fight like that, anyway?' I start to shrug again, and then I stop. 'I guess from my dad,' I say, which, really, is the truth.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

The two biggest things you can do to change your future are the books you read and the people you associate with.

There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

What we live with, we learn. What we learn, we practice. What we practice, we become.

I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.