Quotes About Learning

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

If I were a first grader in one of the suburban schools, I would conclude that schools are geared toward two important things: lining up for lunch and putting the chairs on the desks at the end of the school day. These are the only two things that every teacher I observed adamantly insisted on. The child can only conclude that these tasks -- and not reading -- are terribly important. Everything else in the classroom is more or less laissez-faire.

Visit any public school toilet and look at the graffiti. You'll see that when children are interested, they can learn to spell quite complicated words.

All education is based on a middle-class morality that finds its psychoanalytic equivalent in a powerfully developed reality principle which insists that one must largely forego present pleasure for greater gains in the future. The trouble is that this, too, is not learned on a rational basis, but through anxiety instilled by the parents and by their example. If parents do not live by a stringent morality and by the reality principle, neither will their children.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

Pour se repérer dans l'incertitude, il faut d'abord se perdre dans la complexité.

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

Kuyper called upon Christians to wage a struggle against all compromises with truth in every area of life and learning.

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, "College Customers vs. Suppliers"41

Seminarians often stumble in their early preaching attempts when they try to load everything they are learning into a single sermon. More experienced preachers recognize that they have this week, and the next, and the next to communicate God's truths.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. -Bono

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Although it may be disconcerting to find that something you have believed is mistaken, it is at the same time thrilling, because it opens up new worlds of re-evaluation and fresh thinking, new understanding and insight.

If reading the Bible intently and seriously gives breadth and depth to one's mind (and it certainly does), why not also the Mengzi? or the Bhagavad Gita? or Ch?shingura? There is more than one "great conversation" in the world, and more than one way to furnish a soul.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.