Quotes About Learning

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

My favorite line from Captain Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation is, "I have made some fine mistakes in my life." It is so humble, wise, and self-confident, all at once.

clear thinking find that unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all. This is why tests are given—to motivate learners to have that thrill of a good score or distress of a poor one, and we have found that

Praise yourself for taking risks and learning something new rather than for your successes; it will help you cope with failure. Try not to constantly compare yourself to others; it invites excessive competition. Allow time to think. Keep your expectations realistic. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself.

unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

By adolescence your family had taught you a great deal about how you can and should behave in the real world.

in the first two years the child adapts an overall strategy or mental representation of the world which can be quite enduring.

Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) : is the study of how to make computers do things which, at the moment, people do better.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one.

Education is...A form of self-delusion.

The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.