Quotes About Learning

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

Plus on s'est trompé dans la vie, plus on donne de leçons.

The child is a metaphysical being.

You're so hateful. - I learned at your feet.

sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.

Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but hard work is the only way to get better!')

He is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions. I think we are finally on our way to happiness. I have finally figured it out.

Don't be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

The advice: "Don't be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if furthering and bettering means making more money...For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.

Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Some children like how-to-do-it or all-about-everything type books, but I suspect parents like them best because they look so educational. These really should be in a separate category because they don't usually classify and literature but are more nearly manuals of information. Paul Hazard suggests that instead of pouring out so much knowledge on a child's soul that it is crushed, we should plant a seed of an idea that will develop from the inside.

That is what a book does. It introduces us to people and places we wouldn't ordinarily know. A good book is a magic gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. Books are experiences that make us grow, that add something to our inner stature.

parents who read widely together with their children are going to be those who most influence their children

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

We particularly need to listen to older people and children. They all have stories to tell that enrich the mind and the heart. Children simplify things, often with brutal honesty. Older people bring the perspective of their long years on issues. Suffering people also help us understand what are the truly important matters of life. There is something to learn from all people if we are only willing to sit at their feet and humble ourselves enough to ask the right questions.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

We used to think that schools built brains. Now we know that it is play that builds the brains that school can then use.