Quotes About Learning

relationships between and among groups of students, faculty, and others across campus or around the world? That larger challenge-to harness and focus the participatory learning methods in which our students are so accomplished-is only now beginning to be introduced and typically in relatively rare and isolated formats. Most university education, certainly, is founded on ideas of individual training, discrete disciplines, and isolated achievement

and exemplify this rethinking of virtually enabled and enhanced learning institutions, we used this project to examine potential new models of digital learning.

who supports it, what does it do? We know that informal learning happens, constantly and in many new ways, because of the collaborative opportunities

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. That book, to be published in 2010, is merely the concrete (paper and online) manifestation and culmination of a long, complex process that brought together dozens of collaborators, face to face and virtually.

Given this history, it is certainly hard to fathom something as dispersed, decentralized, and virtual as the Internet being a learning institution in any way comparable to, say, Oxford. We know, given these long histories, what a learning institution is-or we think we do. But what happens when, rivaling formal educational systems, there are also many

combining, probing, and developing insights online together.

The positives from learning about mind control far outweigh the negatives," Mark agreed. "Good people have a right to the information on mind brain function. Once they realize the truth, they can assume the healing.

Education 2000 was designed to increase our children's learning capacity while destroying their ability to critically think for themselves. You can learn more about Education 2000, also referred to as America 2000 and Global 2000, through reading: Educating for the New World Order by B.K. Eakman, published by Halcyon House ISBN # 0-89420-278-2-3441000, and A Critique of America 2000: An Educational Strategy by Kathi Simonds, published by Citizens for Excellence in Education.

I was so privileged I was acquiring the most useless graduate degree imaginable.

My uncle said he used to start and end all his sentences with "motherfucker" because he learned his English from his black customers when he was a clothing wholesaler in New York.

John Waters. He said we need to make books cool again. So if you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.

CVIII [...] Se vòi d'Amor o d'altro bene stare, magistra sit tibi vita aliena, Disse Cato in su' versificare

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

My objective was to awaken their hearts to the ideas dormant there, rather than to implant facts into their memory.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

I suppose the answer was that if something can be known, I can't stand not knowing it.

training to be a

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.