Quotes About Learning

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

Give away everything you know, one bite at a time.