Quotes About Learning

You may teach those who want to learn. However, you cannot teach those who intend to teach you.

You still stay travelling today; however, the superior ones completed it already yesterday; thus, reading them and learning from their experiences and insight that constitutes reliability and authenticity.

When Takuan had sentenced him to confinement, he had said, "You may read as much as you want. A famous priest of ancient times once said, 'I become immersed in the sacred scriptures and read thousands of volumes. When I come away, I find that my heart sees more than before.

Menurut satu aliran pemikiran, jika seseorang menguasai satu keterampilan, dia telah menguasai seluruh ilmu. Ilmu bela diri bukan jurus-jurus belaka-- ilmu bela diri menyangkut kematangan jiwa. Jika seseorang mengolah jiwanya dengan sungguh-sungguh, orang itu mampu menguasai segala sesuatu, termasuk seni belajar dan pemerintahan. Dia memandang dunia apa adanya, dan sanggup menilai orang.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

This book is for parents who understand that potential is not an end point but a capacity to grow and learn. Nurturing children's potential, in the broadest sense, means cultivating their humanity. It involves supporting their expanding abilities to reach out to others with kindness and empathy, to feel part of something bigger than themselves, to find joy and satisfaction in creating a life that is personally meaningful . . . and so much more.

I'm from a family of readers. Not of great books, but of great reading

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.

I had these plans and it turns out I don't know anything. I can't even accomplish the simplest task.

One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience." —John Dewey

Honor Breaks Sometimes you will fall behind, so feel free to skip over content. More content is not always better. It's just more. Besides, cognitive science tells us that breaks can be valuable spacing times. Breaks help your learners retain information.

Make sure you have plenty of variety in how concepts are taught. Mix up segments with storytelling, panel discussions, gamification, practical application time, partner work … the list goes on.

The most effective and resilient organizations are those that have created cultures in which continuous learning is a foundational element of their mission and guiding principles.

On one level, it's easy to think that learning professionals are in the business of delivering learning content. But from a cognitive perspective, we're really in the business of helping learners build schemata that they can then use to perform their jobs.

The list of verbs associated with the six levels in Table 4-1 helps you to select a verb that fits the level of learning.

Enlighten your life with history.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify.

I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.