Quotes About Learning

College started as universitas magistrorum et scholarium—a community of masters and scholars. It was a refuge; it was a place you went to get lost in ideas, to discover and wander, and to plot a course as an academic. Today it's a place you go to exchange a lifetime of debt for credit hours, a degree, and maybe a good job.

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. 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.

School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either.

Hoy en día no empezar es muchísimo peor que equivocarse.

Things that grow don't grow forever—but that's okay, because the experiences we collect stick with us, and we get to take those experiences wherever we go.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either. We remember what we rehearse.

Hay dos errores que podemos cometer en el camino hacia la verdad.   No recorrer todo el camino, y no empezar.»   Siddha¯rta Gautama

Talent is something we're born with: it's in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts. But skill? Skill is earned. It's learned and practiced and hard-won. It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

If you can't fail, it doesn't count.

And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it's okay not to be the best in the world.

The next time you're tempted to vilify a particularly obnoxious customer or agency or search engine, realize that this failed interaction is the best thing that's happened to you all day long. Without it, you'd be easily replaceable. The dip is your very best friend.

The Dip is the difference between the easy "beginner" technique and the more useful "expert" approach in skiing or fashion design.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The

There's no such thing as mandatory education. It's almost impossible to teach people against their will.

But I am glad you are my teacher again. I hope you will keep moving up a grade every year along with me.

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.

Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.