Quotes About Learning

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

to gain an understanding of a world that you know little about, you must encounter it firsthand

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Your first time?" the Hauptman gently asked. I nodded. "You'll get used to it," he went on, "but maybe never completely." He

Moc ti to nejde. Je vid?t, že jsi proležel celý život v knihách. U nás i rabín umí postavit d?m.

Your efforts might be unsung, and people who think the workplace is about fostering friendships might label you antisocial. The trade-off is that you're learning how to find and keep the people around you critical to your success while those who would swipe your time, energy, and contributions are getting less and less of each.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

You can learn much about an enemy when you watch him win. We will watch and learn . . . and plan.

roughly translated 2 from the Hmong language of the Laotian mountain people, which observes: "If I know it then I can hunt it; if I do not know it then it can hunt me.

Most parents look back at the outcomes of past parenting decisions and, unhappy with the results, make adjustments for the future. The intriguing part of this whole equation was the stigma that seemed to go along with these changes or adaptations. Most parents don't advertise, "Here's where I messed up!" It's embarrassing! So they keep it to themselves. Sadly, their silence keeps other parents from learning from their mistakes.

Education is one of the most beautiful and liberating things we can pursue in our lives, but too often it is approached as a restrictive, punitive, linear, and moralistic act.

The cold reality is that much of the valuable information relevant to our intellectual, personal, and academic development is locked within the covers of books in the code of written language.

Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.

In short, you can teach form but ideas are priceless.

what John Holt, a former professor of education at Harvard, knew intellectually: for every day that school is toxic, it takes one day to heal. My mom knew something about healing because

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

When I asked her how she would have fared had she remained out there on her own, fishing for information online and trying to figure out where to begin, she replied that she might eventually have made a successful transition, but the process would have been difficult and demoralizing.

traveling to places like China, Vietnam, and Mongolia to learn how to help the poor in countries undergoing rapid social and economic change.

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.