Quotes About Learning

Ya??n?z ilerledikçe bütün ak?l hocalar? çekip gidiyor... ...Çünkü art?k onlara ihtiyac?n?z olmuyor.

The practice of education is the highest form of intellectual philanthropy.

In the martial art of Karate, for instance, the symbol of pride for a black belt is to wear it long enough such that the die fades to white as to symbolize returning to the beginner state.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

Mr. Lindell's English classes are meant to make you think I guess about yourself and people and everything. Some of the kids say it's pretty weird but they're more honest in English than they are anywhere else and they say more about what they feel...Everything that's said in English etches itself clearly and sharply in my mind like letters carved neatly into deep frost. But I never let them see how eagerly I listen.

What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the fence, like an audience. Of course if the bull had wanted to smash through the fence he could have done so any time, but luckily nearly all cattle live and die without learning that. It's like school, most students go from kindergarten to Year 12 without noticing that they could do a fair amount of damage if they wanted to. They stay inside the fence.

Just because school's boring so much of the time, that doesn't mean kids don't want to learn.

Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.

Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The days that make us happy make us wise.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

They read all the books but they can't find the answers.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.