Quotes About Learning

I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

I would miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which...was to serve me all my life: books.

If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.

We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.

My entire stay there might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

The first step in becoming smarter was to admit what a dumbass you were.

I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.

I made a mistake.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

it's only by studying the mistakes of the past," Lucien said mildly, "that we can even have a future

However much they're paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals.

The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.

She went to the most expensive private girls' school in Connecticut. All they taught her there was how to fold doilies. Pointedly ignoring Alex, I said to John, I'm sure if you show me, I'll catch on. Excellent.John's gaze on me was warm. Then later perhaps you could show me how to fold doilies.

If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat all the fish you might have caught for yourself.--Advice of Paul Slater, the evil mediator, to Suze

You know, Grandma says, you could learn a lot from Dr.Quinn. She knows how to make soap from a sheep's guts. And she had twins when she was fifty. Fifty!

Rule #12 We all make mistakes, and we all deserve a second chance.

You can learn a lot from letting other people talk, and just listening to what they have to say.

Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.

Am I the only one who recalls that Seth Turner used to think trees give off cold air because when you stand in the shade it's cooler than in the sun?

But the truth was for me, making the wrong choice had become an art.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.