Quotes About Learning

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.

Se você fica sabendo de uma coisa — e isso é uma lei natural —, não pode mais não saber .

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.

at New Haven with the valedictory. In his Sophomore year he made the acquaintance of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding—a work which left a permanent impress on his thinking. He read it, he says, with a far higher pleasure "than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold from some newly-discovered treasure.

The only thing about school he seemed to like was the audience it provided.

For Ali, it was the beginning of a battle to overcome the dyslexia and poor reading skills that had hampered him since childhood.

learning to read rewires the brain. Reading teaches us to block out the world, and in the process certain kinds of visual processing skills get lost. That may be why some dyslexics exhibit exceptional visual talents

It means something, I think, when Thai people learn how to cook Vietnamese noodles for Hong Kongborn teenagers, and as big a fan as I am of authenticity, it probably means something good.

I vaguely mind people knowing anything I don't know. --Paul McCartney

There's an old saying: "Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

life is a journey," the metaphor guides you to some conclusions: You should learn the terrain, pick a direction, find some good traveling companions, and enjoy the trip, because there may be nothing at the end of the road.

With such a vast and wonderful library spread out before us, we often skim books or read just the reviews. We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we savored it, taken it to heart, and worked it into our lives.

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make people think.

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think."40

This is the essence of psychological rationalism: We grow into our rationality as caterpillars grow into butterflies. If the caterpillar eats enough leaves, it will (eventually) grow wings. And if the child gets enough experiences of turn taking, sharing, and playground justice, it will (eventually) become a moral creature, able to use its rational capacities to solve ever harder problems. Rationality is our nature, and good moral reasoning is the end point of development.

Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind.

You can learn more about cultivating the intellectual virtues and about how to incorporate them in schools at intellectualvirtues.org and in the writings of Jason Baehr, a professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and one of the founders of the Intellectual Virtues Academy.32

Hanna Holborn Gray, the president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, once offered this principle: "Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.