Quotes About Learning

Learning to surf is a mixture of respect, timing, balance, boldness, and humility, with bits of pure elation

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

Falsafah tidak pernah terlepas daripada sejarah. Kadang-kadang saya terfikir ada bagusnya jika saya terus menyata kebenaran tentang sesebuah soalan kepada pelajar saya lalu mengakhiri syarahan. Tetapi pendekatan membelakangi sejarah sedemikian rupa cenderung menghasil kedangkalan falsafah.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about...But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance.

No one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.

Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.

Finally, at the praiseworthy end of Edmondson's spectrum, we find intelligent failures. These are hypothesis tests and exploratory tests that open up potentials, and treat failure as an opportunity to learn rather than something to be avoided.

That's how games work—we fail our way toward understanding through play.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

A sign of emotional health and maturity is being able to accept ourselves as fallible human beings, while continuing to do our best to avoid mistakes. If we own our mistakes when they happen, we can make amends and learn from them. When dealt with appropriately, our mistakes and failures often do lead to positive outcomes. At the very least, they provide a valuable correction to fanciful beliefs that we are infallible or have sufficient resources in ourselves to beat any obstacle.

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