Quotes About Learning

What then, is dark fantasy? I would argue that it is a genre of fantasy whose protagonists inhabit the world of consensual mundane reality and learn otherwise, not by walking through a portal into some other world, or by being devoured or destroyed irrevocably, but by learning to live with new knowledge and sometimes with new flesh.

Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed masters.

Ler rapidamente aquilo que o autor levou anos para pensar é um desrespeito. [...] Há frases que resumem uma vida. Por isso é preciso ler vagarosamente, prestando atenção nas idéias que se escondem nos silêncios que há entre as palavras.

Nossas inteligências estão cada vez mais ligadas aos vídeos e computadores e cada vez mais distantes da natureza. Há crianças que nunca viram uma galinha de verdade, nunca sentiram o cheiro de um pinheiro, nunca ouviram o canto do pintassilgo e não têm prazer em brincar com terra. Pensam que terra é sujeira. Não sabem que terra é vida.

No fundo, o mal todo está nessa mania de ler, estudar, escrever; esse negócio de intelectual é sempre maroto. Por que não promover uma grande campanha nacional de analfabetização?

Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

for even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

You don't learn how to win by losing on purpose.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.