Quotes About Learning

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. —RALPH SOCKMAN

I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

Davidson had become a strong believer in the concept of neuroplasticity, the idea that people's brains will physically change over time and that those changes can depend on their life experiences.

because it was from that experience that I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street.

At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.

But aside from Willy's skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was mathematics. Numbers came easily to him. And it was not just simple mathematics but anything that was curious. Many nights in bed he pondered numbers.

In Olney, five miles southeast of Piddington, he heard Thomas Scott. Later, he talked to Scott. The Anglican seemed a perfect spiritual guide. Not only did he not hold to the hard Predestination teachings of Calvin but he too was gifted linguist. Willy was shocked to learn Scott had mastered Latin, Greek and Hebrew! So, with Scott's help and books, of course Willy began learning Hebrew too. "Now I will learn the language of the Old Testament itself!" he marveled. In

curricula must be an exercise in triage, in making hard choices about what gets thrown out of the story, so that the essentials can survive. . . . We need to be willing to identify those things that every American student needs to know and insist upon them . . . while paring away vigorously at the rest.47

History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

The chief virtue of Bloom's Taxonomy was its simplicity: six categories, not sixty.

Mechanical testing tempts us with the false promise of efficiency. It whispers that there is an easier, less costly, more scientific way. But the truth is that blackening circles only prepares students to blacken more circles in the future. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be redeemed from our craziness.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang was a critic of "an educational system that does not offer anything other than limited reading and writing." Beh-Rang

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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.

Having Jude is like having a dictionary the size of a man beside me. I open him up and ask him all sorts of questions.

What, she wondered, was going to happen to people who think they know everything? What's going to happen without chance?

A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.