Quotes About Learning

Et si je suis un homme ayant quelque lecture, je suis un homme qui n'en retient rien.

he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36

Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

So much for yesterday. Today, Sophie's formal education must begin. Dressing the lamb before the kill, as Mrs Castaway once put it, when Sugar dared to ask what, exactly, education is.

La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.

How's things, man?" The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow. "Very good," said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn't have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone's ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn't it? Sniff out the truth!

Never too late for vocabulary building," he said.

La educación es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo.

I am not a professional historian: nobody is perfect.

I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Right Now I Am Increasing, Learning & Discovering all Solutions for My Life Purpose & Happiness.

Education is ever-changing, even though some of our practices aren't evolving as quickly as our students are.

We educators have chosen to work with all students, taking responsibility to do our best with the materials and resources we have.

Teachers lead by taking actions that improve the conditions of learning for others.

As my professor remarked after he heard me say I was learning to play the bassoon, "No, you're playing the bassoon. Someday you'll play it better!

Meg, I'm not suddenly some kind of all-knowing dragon expert, you know.

Pages are the students of the suit, suggestive of a person who has yet to master its special powers but who is earnestly engaged in figuring it all out. Knights are super action-oriented, ready to GO, on the double, like, yesterday! Queens are self-assured and generous, a bit interior, strong and meditative. Kings are likewise so but more extroverted and action-oriented.

Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging shows that the areas of the brain that are activated during sleep are the same as those involved in learning a new task. Dreaming is perhaps useful in consolidating this new information.

As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers.

One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.

For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason why humans became intelligent.