Quotes About Learning

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Although Trixie was jostled about a lot the first few minutes and almost lost her stirrups again, she found to her delight at the end of the lesson that she could grip with her knees and rise up to meet Lady's gait almost as rhythmically as Honey.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

I can't buy the idea that we're supposed to live and learn from horrible things. That somehow these things happen so we can grow as people

Science never sucks, it vacuums!

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply buried aroma of hope and discovery of fulfillment in it. I thought I was using the Book to learn to cook French food, but really I was learning to sniff out the secret doors of possibility.

cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner (1977) wrote, "Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully" (p. 7).

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Lo que pasa es que se creen sabios -dice de golpe-. Se creeen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se los han comido.

La falta de experiencia es inevitable, si leo a Joyce estoy sacrificando automáticamente otro libro y viceversa, etc.

Quien más quien menos, mis cuatro primos carnales se dedican a la filosofía. Leen libros, discuten entre ellos y son admirados a distancia por el resto de la familia

Cómo se repiten los juegos. Calzamos en moldes más que usados, aprendemos como idiotas cada papel más que sabido.

Poco a poco, sin embargo, se va adquiriendo la habilidad necesaria para salvar las diferentes casillas […], lo malo es que justamente a esa altura, cuando casi nadie ha aprendido a remontar la piedrita hasta el Cielo, se acaba de golpe la infancia y se cae en las novelas».

Se creen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se lo han comido. Me da risa, porque en realidad son buenos muchachos y viven convencidos de que lo que estudian y lo que hacen son cosas muy difíciles y profundas. En el circo es igual, y entre nosotros es igual. La gente se figura que algunas cosas son el colmo de la dificultad, y por eso aplauden a los trapecistas.

En nombre de los otros tiempos se hacen las grandes macanas en éstos

Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo

Experience is the teacher of all things.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.