Quotes About Learning

What was the first song you learned to play?

I've never used a screwdriver," he

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. —Aristotle

Some learned and remembered, others never do." She walked down again.

Some learned and remembered, others never do.

worth his PhD should have a

me to make a mistake. He's

Know thyself. —Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle CHAPTER ELEVEN She lay flat on her back on thick grass under a brilliantly blue sky.

taught herself not to do—as

You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.

anything worth anything can be found in books

Well yes. People do teach at Yale. It's highly recommended, given the students.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

you can't fix stupid.' It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

For any machine subject to a varied external environment to act effectively it is necessary that information concerning the results of its own action be furnished to it as part of the information on which it must continue to act.

I repeat, feedback is a method of controlling a system by reinserting into it the results of its past performance. If these results are merely used as numerical data for the criticism of the system and its regulation, we have the simple feedback of the control engineers. If, however, the information which proceeds backward from the performance is able to change the general method and pattern of performance, we have a process which may well be called learning.

Can man-made machines learn and can they reproduce themselves? We shall try to show in this chapter that in fact they can learn and can reproduce themselves, and we shall give an account of the technique needed for both these activities.

It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced … Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case … [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I

Rhea survived an extended visit to the room housing Lord Nelson's cufflinks, while I learned to my delight that even mere mortals could partake of the Covers, the most basic sources for most Royal Navy warship designs. It was Alan who taught me that the Covers were not enough, that I should go to the PRO, too.

You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

it is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions.

Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock.