Quotes About Learning

If we lose the power of informed debate, we become unable to avoid unfairness in society and to value differing viewpoints. Worse, we lose democracy. We must learn from our past mistakes and triumphs, not color them with a false paintbrush of bias or opinion or reinvent definitions for existing words calling the "truth" a "lie," or we shall never learn to become better people and leave a healthier, happier, safer planet behind us for our children and grandchildren.

The pain of depression and despair can build enough heat to melt the lead walls surrounding you. The darkness of charcoal, under pressure, can turn into a diamond. We need to realize blessings come in strange shapes and sizes, and if we are willing to learn from our pain, then suicide is not on the list of options.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

I didn't decide to learn sign language, any more than I ever decided to enjoy a poem; it simply held me spellbound.

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.

let's think about why you need a grammar book at all.

I liked to read about five books at a time and leave them open to my place.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

people want children to be creative before they have any knowledge or skill to be creative with.

It is normal for a fifth-grade aged student to be writing at a third-grade level, reading at a fifth-grade level, and doing math at a seventh-grade level. A child who succeeds at two subjects and cries over the third may still be showing immaturity—and the answer may be to drop back to a lower level in only the third subject.

Levine, Robert. The Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!

Susan Wise Bauer

practice this skill with this book.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

Underline in your books, jot notes in the margins, and turn the corners of your pages down. Public education is a beautiful dream, but public classrooms too often train students not to mark, write in, disfigure, or in any way make books permanently their own. You're a grownup now, so buy your own books if you possibly can. In my opinion, a cheap paperback filled with your own notes is worth five times as much as a beautiful collector's edition.

One of the first Italians to give a name to the reawakened interest in Greek and Roman learning was the poet Petrarch, who announced early in the 1340s that poets and scholars were ready to lead the cities of Italy back to the glory days of Rome. Classical learning had declined, Petrarch insisted, into darkness and obscurity. Now was the time for that learning to be rediscovered: a rebirth, a Renaissance.

Technology can do a great deal to make information gathering easier, but it can do little to simplify the gathering of wisdom.

When you read, you develop wisdom—or, in Mortimer Adler's words, "become enlightened." "To be informed," Adler writes in How to Read a Book, "is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.

As you read, you should follow this three-part process: jot down specific phrases, sentences, and paragraphs as you come across them; when you've finished your reading, go back and write a brief summary about what you've learned; and then write your own reactions, questions, and thoughts.

as Thomas Paine said, it has never been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.