Quotes About Learning

students are taught that knowledge is static and complete, and they become experts at consuming knowledge rather than producing knowledge." This is unacceptable.

Not only can we not teach doctrinally approved solutions any more [which take roughly two years to be approved], the truth is, we don't even know all the problems!

Praising ability alone reduces persistence, while praising effort or the processes a person goes through to learn leads to growth mind-set behaviors. Dweck has found this to apply regardless of age.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

Practicing little bets frees us from the expectation that we should know everything we need to know before we begin.

Redefining problems and failures as opportunities focuses our attention on insights to be gained rather than worrying about false starts or the risks we're taking. By focusing on doing, rather than planning, learning about the risks and pitfalls of ideas rather than trying to predict them with precision up-front, an experimental approach develops growth mind-set muscles.

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

We all have a memory and can memorise things. The more important thing is how we act on that which we know.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist.

he pugnaciously advanced his view that the study of 'high culture' has to be the main aim of education. Above all, he said, we must pay attention to ancient Greece, because it provided 'the models for modern achievement'. Bloom believed that the philosophers and poets of the classical world are those from whom we have most to learn, because the big issues they raised have not changed as the years have passed.

Poterunt discussis forte tenebris Ad puram priscumque iubar remeare nepotes Tunc Elicona noua reuitentem stripe iudebis Tunc lauros frondere sacras; tunc alta resurgent Ingenia atque animi dociles, quibus ardour honesti Pyeridum studii ueterem geminabit amorem.

As far as anyone could tell, Portia had learned to partition its cognitive processes: almost as if it were emulating a larger brain piece by piece, saving the results of one module to feed into the next. Slices of intellect, built and demolished one after another.

The GA's new recruits have to be the slowest learners since the eradication of Down's syndrome.

No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.

Throughout the length and breadth of the world, the smart ones sharpen their minds in the schools and universities. In Greece, they sharpen them on the suckers. The more suckers there are around, the more smart ones there are.

Ya?lanarak de?il ya?ayarak tecrübe kazan?l?r; zaman insanlar? de?il, armutlar? olgunla?t?r?r