Quotes About Learning

When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.

I mean, did you ever hear of Wikipedia? It's free, douchebag.

It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.

Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC

Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Well, I'm no Yngwie Malmsteen or anything," I said. "I'm still learning.

G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer. Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online. I

probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach.

Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest

One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching and experience and pain.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Read. Read. Read. Write. Write. Write.