Quotes About Learning

Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.

Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.

Providing a high-quality education for all Alabamians, at every stage of life, is my goal.

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.