Quotes About Learning

The How stage of questioning is where the rubber meets the road or, in Nanda's case, the clock hits the floor. It's the point at which things come together and then, more often than not, fall apart, repeatedly. Reality intrudes and nothing goes quite as planned.

All of which means that, whereas in the past one needed to appear to have "all the answers" in order to rise in companies, today, at least in some enlightened segments of the business world, the corner office is there for the askers

In a time when so much of what we know is subject to revision or obsolescence, the comfortable expert must go back to being a restless learner.

If we're born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

What might the potential for humans be if we really encouraged that spirit of questioning in children, instead of closing it down? I

What would happen if this happens?' I do that on my own—I do all of my exploring outside of school. Because in school it's not allowed and that just . . . really sucks."   If

One of the most important things questioning does is to enable people to think and act in the face of uncertainty. As Steve Quatrano of the Right Question Institute puts it, forming questions helps us "to organize our thinking around18 what we don't know.

Libraries are being remade as interesting maker spaces, with the librarian playing more of the role of the teacher of inquiry-based learning

You don't learn unless you question.

Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything." After

What if our schools could train students to be better lifelong learners and better adapters to change, by enabling them to be better questioners?

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." Beginner's

What's required is a willingness to go out into the world with a curious and open mind, to observe closely, and—perhaps most important, according to a number of the questioners I've interviewed—to listen.

when he came home from school, "while other mothers asked their kids 'Did you learn anything today?' [my mother ] would say, 'Izzy, did you ask a good question today?

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it."

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you

If they offer something better, I will gladly learn. Francis David, no. 566

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.