Quotes About Learning

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they were worthy of information and discussion.

I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

What do you know and how do you know it

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.

Not to learn from our experiences is a tremendous waste of time. Life is an adult-education school.

In the final analysis we are all our own teachers and our own pupils and that is as it should be.

Humans employ simplified conceptual frameworks and normative cues to make sense of and cope with the infinite complexity of the natural and social world. This is the magical devise that has made our species' amazing trajectory possible, and it relies on our unique capacity for social learning.

Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When a student "studied" did he do anything more than read and think-- or was there something special which no one in Walden Two would know about? Why did the professors lecture to the students? Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions? Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in?

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.

The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again