Quotes About Learning

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

education is what makes a man free!

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day." -Bruce Mau.

Knowing which teachers' practice is typically strong or less strong in relation to specific pedagogy is important if school leaders are to be able to target professional learning, guide and facilitate teachers to learn from each other, and support teachers to develop and improve their practice. Without this knowledge, schools will fail to achieve consistent, high-quality teaching and learning across the school. Teaching

Assigning ratings to lessons is high-stakes; evaluating the quality of particular elements of pedagogy is low-stakes.

Knowledge and skills are different but linked – knowledge underpins the development of skills

Bloom's intention was to communicate the idea that knowledge is the foundation of skills development, not that it is more important to focus on teaching skills than knowledge

Schools that don't make use of lesson observations, or in which lesson observations are used exclusively for the purposes of quality assurance, are not learning schools: they are static schools.

Schools do need to measure, but they also need to move. Moving is more important than measuring. Accordingly

in order for students to develop skills of the type they are pushing for (such as creativity, problem-solving, teamwork and leadership), they must first have been taught knowledge.

Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.

As a guide, I would suggest that Specific Teaching typically makes up 80–90% of teaching and learning time; Non-specific Teaching should make up 10–20%.

Pre-existing knowledge is what allows students to think.

In every subject, the student experience should be summed up by '3Es': exciting, engaging and enjoyable. The extent to which this holds true will be determined by the quality of teaching.

Schools are, first and foremost, about supporting, challenging and inspiring young people to learn.

Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers.

Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers. Because the perfect teacher does not exist, every teacher has something to learn and improve in their teaching. An essential part of this learning is watching other teachers teach.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it's incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There's so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.

We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.

We all have some emptiness in our lives, an emptiness that some fill with art, some with God, some with learning. I have always filled the emptiness with drugs. Because

She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn't understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

If only they had told us that it was all metaphor, I might have learned;