Quotes About Learning

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential." The Last Lecture

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process.

The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.

Cuando cometes errores y nadie te lo indica, significa que ya se han dado por vencidos contigo.

Temelji. To je bilo ono što nam je poklonio trener Graham. Temelji, temelji, temelji. Kao profesor uvidio sam da ovu lekciju mnogi preska?u, naj?eš?e na vlastitu štetu. Uvijek se moraju postaviti temelji, jer onaj zanimljivi i zabavni dio bez njih ne?e funkcionirati.

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. The same is true in your life outside of your job.

Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can

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Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.

the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.