Quotes About Learning

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

At our best, we are all teachers

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.