Quotes About Learning

Remember, decisions don't have to be made perfectly. We don't have to be perfect. We don't even have to be nearly perfect. We can just be who we are. We can make mistakes in our choices. We're not so fragile we can't handle making a mistake. It's no big deal! It's part of living. We can learn from our mistakes, or we can simply make another decision.

We're learning, through trial and error, to separate our will from God's will. We're learning that God's will is not offensive. We've learned that sometimes there's a difference between what others want us to do and God's will. We're also learning that God did not intend for us to be codependent, to be martyrs, to control or caretake. We're learning to trust ourselves. . . . and the power to carry that through.

You have learned that you will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have learned how to stop the pain.

when the guru raised his cane, the woman reached up and grabbed the stick. She stopped his assault in midair. She expected to be scolded. This was her turn to be surprised. The guru smiled. "Congratulations," he said. "You've graduated. You've learned everything you need to know. You've learned you'll never learn all there is to know and you've learned how to stop the pain.

You now know everything you need to know." "How's that?" the woman asked. "You have learned that you will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have learned how to stop the pain.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

O homem que não sofre atribulações não se educa.

Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.

What if I make a mistake?: she finally said. :Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes. If you make a mistake, we'll admit to it, own it, and then fix it.:

If something went right, it was a teaching thing, and if something went wrong…it was a teaching thing.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it—teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.

Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be

There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.

For what is more lovable than failure?

There is no education like adversity. --Benjamin Disraeli

Fail your way to success.

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen

Bel Kaufman (1911–2014) was a writer, teacher, and lecturer best known for her classic, bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase (1965).

This is just the first day; you'll get used to it. The rewards will come later, from the kids themselves–and from the unlikeliest ones.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.