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Quotes About Learning

When can I drive the new ride?" "When you learn that a yellow light means haul ass to get through it before it turns red instead of slowing down to a crawl a half a block away.
~ J.D. Robb
Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?
~ J.D. Robb
Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.
~ J.D. Robb
Put the past behind you - that's what people always said. But those people didn't get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.
~ J.D. Robb
How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.
~ J.D. Robb
Two library visits in one evening. Why, it could become a habit.
~ J.D. Robb
instructor—and
~ J.D. Robb
You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.
~ J.M. Coetzee
But then, what are books for if not to change our lives?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living.
~ J.M. Coetzee
As for your Spanish, don't worry, persist. One day it will cease to feel like a language, it will become the way things are.
~ J.M. Coetzee
En cuanto a él, Simón, está aprendiendo. Primero hizo su aprendizaje con un niño; ahora lo hace con un perro. Una vida de aprendizaje. Debería estar agradecido.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
~ J.M. Coetzee
No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Il mondo continua farci delle sorprese. E noi continuiamo a imparare.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Si imaginamos al niño como una planta, el educador debería alimentar las raíces de la planta y observar su crecimiento, en lugar de podar sus ramas y darle forma, como predican los kuyperistas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Sigue dedicándose a la enseñanza [...] porque así aprende la virtud de la humildad, porque así comprende con toda claridad cuál es su lugar en el mundo. No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Estoy de acuerdo: es humillante, pero tal vez ese sea un buen punto de partida. Tal vez sea eso lo que debo aprender a aceptar. Empezar de cero, sin nada de nada.
~ J.M. Coetzee
A ironia não lhe escapa: aquele que vai ensinar acaba aprendendo a melhor lição, enquanto os que vão aprender não aprendem nada.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Dejarme ir a mí misma, dejarte ir a ti, dejar ir a una casa todavía llena de recuerdos: es duro, pero voy aprendiendo
~ J.M. Coetzee
Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de
~ J.M. Coetzee
La aritmética es para alguien que se propone salir al mundo, comprar y vender. No. Vamos a estudiar los números enteros, el uno, el dos, el tres, etcétera. Eso acordamos con David. La teoría de los números; lo que uno puede hacer con los números y qué sucede cuando los números se acaban.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The right approach to life is one that hungers to know as many truths as one can and to avoid as many falsehoods as possible.
~ J.P. Moreland
A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.
~ J.R. Ward