Quotes About Learning

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

Aprendía mal y a medias una lección: la gente se moría. Al morir, ¿dónde quedaba?, ¿eran ya para siempre inaccesibles? Transitaba como la cabeza de la tortuga, de la vida a la muerte, preguntándome dónde estaba la línea segura. Y no veía bien a bien dónde pararme para saber que estaba en territorio firme. Sobre todo porque comenzaba una exploración que ponía en juego la apariencia de los vivos.

Vivir es saber estar solo para aprender a estar en compañía.

Tardamos bastante más de lo que calculan los maestros en entender la escritura como búsqueda personal de expresión. El primer aliciente para expresarse por escrito de una manera espontánea surge, precisamente, como rebeldía frente a su mandato. La ruptura con los maestros es condición necesaria para que germine la voluntad real de escribir.

La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.

Learning is one addiction I don't mind admitting to. In fact, I celebrate it.

I'm a learning machine and this is the place to learn.

Studying brands outside of your industry can spark creative brainstorms.

Great speakers use short words to explain new ideas.

Are you the same person today—as a college sophomore—as you were in the third grade?" he asked the student. "No, of course not," she replied. "Then something happened to you that made you grow, that forced you to look at the world differently. That event is your momentous occasion.

Acknowledging that students learn on different timetables, and that they differ widely in their ability to think abstractly or understand complex ideas, is no different than acknowledging that students at any given age aren't all the same height. It is not a statement of worth but of reality.

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And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, "Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!