Quotes About Learning

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.