Quotes About Learning

Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine

Ray did not but could have said, *quote* Me, I read books [.....] How's about you? *closequote*

From a biological perspective, making mistakes is critical to new learning

Challenge occurs when we have to apply current knowledge or skills to situations that require extension or development of them.

Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.

L'instruction! Voyez ce que c'est, monsieur, que l'instruction. On apprend quelque chose à l'école, on se donne même du mal, beaucoup de mal, pour apprendre quelque chose à l'école, et puis vingt ans après, ou même avant, ce n'est plus ça, les choses ont changé, on ne sait plus rien, alors vraiment ce n'était pas la peine. Aussi je préfère penser qu'apprendre.

the less you know, the less you will be aware of your ignorance. The familiar metaphor is that the wider the circle of our knowledge, the greater its contact with the unknown, and the more oppressive our feeling of cognitive inadequacy. By contrast, a small mind finds a small world to match it, and the smaller the mind the more it feels it has the world sussed.

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

I didn't want to learn the butterfly because it's hard. I got it right away, but I didn't want to do it.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.