Quotes About Learning

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her.

1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

We learn most where we know the least.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

but I grew to love these spontaneous gatherings in shopping malls, university bookstores, and specialty bookshops that couldn't be replaced by the big chains, all the spaces with coffee, comfortable chairs, and the presence of books that allow people to browse and discover interests they didn't know they had.

The things you regret sometimes turn out to be the things you celebrate. In other words: You learn from what you do wrong.

A quote is the essence of a story. We all need stories to convey ideas, justice, anger, humanity, hope, laughter, learning, and whatever makes us understand or feel understood

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.

We learn from difference, not from sameness.

But controversy is a teacher.

We learn where we know the least.

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.

Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening

You're going to make mistakes, and you will learn from them. Say you're sorry, ask what you could have done better, learn - and move on.

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I

Since Native students often prosper in cooperative rather than competitive classrooms—as do a lot of female students, regardless of where they come from—I've been asked to talk about the feminist movement and efforts to change classrooms into learning circles.