Quotes About Learning

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.

Maybe I should have screwed up.

But I love the teaching: the hard work of a first class, the fun of the second class. Then the misery of the third.

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

When we downshift Christian education from the paradigm of expertise to a paradigm of love, we do not dilute the importance of rigorous theological reflection. On the contrary, inverting the order of instruction makes serious inquiry all the more likely. We learn best what we love most.

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school.

Of course, on a map oriented along the lines of this jingle: North to the ceiling, South to the floor, West to the window, East to the door it did appear that the Nile River flowed up. I can't tell you much else about what happened in that classroom that year.

Sometimes we have to unlearn things before we can learn the right things.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

we do not know how to survive without other people to care for us and to teach us. Therefore, humans must discover ways of effectively interacting both with their environment and with each other. They must learn how to construct the knowledge, including rules of living, that will enable them to survive. This knowledge, the manner in which it is presented (in the family, in the neighborhood, in literature, art, school lessons, etc.), and the meaning it has for us is called culture.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights by partners in thought.

I knew nothing of the matter, so said nothing. It made me feel rather downcast, all this knowledge locked away in books that I didn't know and likely never would. I loved books, but they were expensive and heavy and reading them took time I rarely had.

within arm's reach of the unfamiliar adult. Soon he was pointing with a crooked finger,

Sometimes we learn the lessons we most desperately need in the form of illness." - Larry Dossey

But in order to look, one has to start with a beginner's mind that carries no preconceptions or presumptions. The beginner's mind looks to find out what is new; it does not look to confirm.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Readers need to understand programs in detail and in concept. Sometimes they move from detail to concept, sometimes from concept to detail.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer