Quotes About Learning

Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.

But in order to forget them as separate acts, you have to learn them first as separate acts.

Reading as Learning: The Difference Between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery

Uma montanha de fatos [...] pode servir de obstáculo ao entendimento.

Não precisamos saber tudo sobre determinada coisa para que possamos entendê-la.

Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue. No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment.

the process by which a person's mind, with nothing to function with but the symbols of the reading matter, and without any outside help[1], rises through the power of its own functioning.

The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores.

A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster than anything you can manage now. It should enable you to vary your rate of reading in accordance with the nature and complexity of the material.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.

Reading, like unaided discovery, is learning from an absent teacher.

They are thus faced with the task of achieving a superficial knowledge of the book at the same time that they are trying to understand it. That compounds the difficulty.

Children were taught to sound out the letters of the alphabet individually

knowledge can be communicated and that discussion can result in learning.

Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened.

To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

não é verdade que todo o livro possa ser lido para entretenimento também pode ser lido para entendimento.

The first thing to do when you have amassed your bibliography is to inspect all of the books on your list. You should not read any of them analytically before inspecting all of them.

STEP 2 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: BRINGING THE AUTHORS TO TERMS

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understand­ ing as too few. There is a sense in which we modems are inun­ dated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social skills - when our kids are little. I don't see ho it's putting them ahead if they know how to write their name before the next kid.

Ich hört' in meiner Bücherei des Nachts Den Bücherwurm den Schmetterling befragen: Ich habe mein Nest in Ibn Sinas Blättern, Bin in Farabis Manuskript beschlagen - Den Sinn des Lebens hab' ich nicht verstanden, Ganz sonnenlos leb' ich in finstern Tagen! Wie schön sprach darauf der halbverbrannte Falter: Nach diesem Punkt darfst du nicht Bücher fragen: Nur Fieberglut kann neues Leben bringen, Nur Fieberflut gibt deinem Leben Schwingen!

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.