Quotes About Learning

Dotar a los alumnos de instrumentos críticos que les permitan extraer el contenido ideológico de los mitos.

Our own accumulated experience becomes increasingly solidified over time. That is, we start to think we know how the world works, and things that accord with that evolving viewpoint we take in much more easily than things that seem to contradict how we think the world works. This evolution is a kind of ongoing process to the extent that we need to understand further and further how the world works.

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esenciales.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

stupid orders for years and years—that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you

Education should not be a matter of pouring water into a vessel [...] it should be conceived as laying out a string along which learners proceed in their own ways, exercising and improving their creative capacities and imaginations, and experiencing the joy of discovery.

Amnesia constrains ambition and inoculates against patience. Still

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. When I see a newspaper on the couch, I like to sit down with it.... Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.

Arthur shook his head. 'I've always been terrible at colors,' he said, 'It comes from having grown up with the single-row box of crayons instead of the big box. If I'd had the big box I would now know taupe and cerise and ecru. Instead, all I know is burnt sienna. And what good does it do me? Never once I have I heard anything described as burnt sienna. Never once have I heard anyone say, Follow that burnt sienna car.

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.

I didn't speak French well at all and did these terrible interviews in pigeon French.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

You can never read too many books, any kind.

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.

Only the young think they know anything about wisdom.

With their hands still joined, he laid them on her stomach. I love you, he murmured, both. Caine. And his name was muffled against his mouth. I have so much to learn in only seven months. We have a lot to learn in seven months, he corrected. Why don't we go upstairs. He buried his face into her hair and drew in her scent. Expectant mothers should lie down- he lifted his head to grin at her -often. With expectant fathers, Diana agreed, laughing when he swept her into his arms.