Quotes About Learning

She sees that Derek has a very different idea of high expectations than she has. More than that, she realizes that his is actually the better one. "You're right," she says, after a pause.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts; if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

There are no shortcuts. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task... experience is algorithmically incompressible.

teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

as your dog becomes more self-actualized, he may hold up the mirror for you, and the face you see can be humbling.

Without any reinforcement—except that of seeing his peers hunt—he had learned every detail of flushing and retrieving and hadn't been spooked in the least by the report of the gun.

She advises micro-managing every detail of a dog's life down to training it to eliminate on command. Why do we need to oversee dogs in this fashion? Because, she answers, they have "little, smoothish lemon brains," not at all like the "convoluted, melon brains" that allow humans to think.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.

Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it.

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs 15:32).

Pleasant words grease the wheels of instruction.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs

Train your children to use occasions when hurt to learn how to love God and deepen their trust and confidence in him.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.