Quotes About Learning

Fiction, in a less direct way, will teach me, teach me things I would never learn had I not opened myself to them in story.

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

read a poem every day and think about it

She had a lot of experience bringing up younger brothers herself but had never been close to a little girl. The

If learning were purely or even predominantly cognitive, then computers would be adequate and there would be no point in gathering people together in a room. But affects are social, "are there first, before we are" (65). The affective environment influences the nature of cognition: "affects may, at least in some instances, find thoughts that suit them, not the other way around" (7).

Slow Professors advocate deliberation over acceleration. We need time to think, and so do our students. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury but is crucial to what we do.

Love books, love life

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

knowledge is power.

While, like anything else that is learned, addiction may get more engrained with time, people actually have increased odds of recovery as they age, not reduced chances.

Fear and threat also literally shunt energy away from the areas of the brain involved in self-control and abstract reasoning—the exact opposite of what you want when you are trying to teach someone new ways of thinking and acting.

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

We got a course in picknicking at the university, said Dr. Bourbon. It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It's a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning.

For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.

You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

capitalization learning": we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.