Quotes About Learning

It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.

Memory is the single most powerful driving force in how we learn to eat; it shapes all our yearnings.

One of the reasons that we do not usually think of our tastes as learned is that most of the learning tends to happen in the very early years of life; and then it stops.

But we haven't paid anything like enough attention to another consequence of being omnivores, which is that eating is not something we are born instinctively knowing how to do, like breathing. It is something we learn.

My premise in First Bite is that the question of how we learn to eat - both individually and collectively - is the key to how food, for so many people, has gone so badly wrong. The greatest public health problem of modern times is how to persuade people to make better food choices.

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

Once we accept that eating is a learned behavior, we see that the challenge is not to grasp information but to learn new habits.

The main way that anyone learns to like new foods is through repeated exposure.

What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.

There are three big things we would all benefit from learning to do: to follow structured mealtimes; to respond to our own internal cues for hunger and fullness rather than relying on external cues such as portion size; and to make ourselves open to trying a variety of foods.

After all, as omnivores, we were not born knowing what to eat. We all had to learn it, every one of us, as children sitting expectantly, waiting to be fed.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

A book is a garden; a book is an orchard; a book is a storehouse; a book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.

Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

You're not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

What are those?" I asked, pointing up. "Those are ceiling," Varya said. "And here—sink. See—only turn so, and ffft! water!