Quotes About Learning

Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.

You become a winner because you're good at losing.

The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

But what if I fail? You will. The answer to the what if question is, you will. A better question might be, after I fail, what then? Well, if you've chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we're stamping out the artist that lives within.

Going out of your way to find uncomfortable situations isn't natural, but it's essential.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be.

The same is true for learning. True learning (as opposed to education) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort (the persistent feeling of incompetence as we get better at a skill).

THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!" —Richard Feynman

Education isn't a problem until it serves as a buffer rom the world and a refuge from the risk of failure.

You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

Every day you stay is a bad strategic decision for your career because every day you get better at something that isn't that useful—and you are another day behind others who are learning something more useful.

people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

Great teachers are precious. Lousy teachers cause damage that lasts forever. We need to reorganize our schools to free the great teachers from tests and reports and busywork, and to expel the lousy

If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!)