Quotes About Learning

Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.

There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade

Mindkettejüket szórakoztatták az élet ifjonti ügyetlenkedései, mindkettejüket elszomorította a múló idÅ'vel megérkezÅ' bölcsesség.

How little I knew of his life! But now I was learning something every instant. The door standing slightly ajar was the best link imaginable.

Mother, what's chtonic?" That, too, you'd explain, Appending: "Would you like a tangerine?" "No. Yes. And what does sempiternal mean?" You'd hesitate. And lustily I'd roar The answer from my desk through the closed door.

Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

Encouraging refutation sharpens everyone's thinking and builds better collective wisdom

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Forget should's and experience is.

If you are in any doubt, ask the pro to show you the motion, not tell you about it.

fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We

To me it makes sense to build any system of instruction upon the best possible understanding of natural learning, the learning process you were born with.

experience precedes technical knowledge.

Freedom from stress happens in proportion to our responsiveness to our true selves, allowing every moment possible to be an opportunity for Self 2 to be what it is and enjoy the process. As far as I can see, this is a lifelong learning process.

if we let ourselves lose touch with our ability to feel our actions, by relying too heavily on instructions, we can seriously compromise our access to our natural learning processes and our potential to perform.

valid instruction derived from experience can help me if it guides me to my own experiential discovery of any given stroke possibility.

The development of inner skills is required, but it is interesting to note that if, while learning tennis, you begin to learn how to focus your attention and how to trust in yourself, you have learned something far more valuable than how to hit a forceful backhand. The

I was beginning to learn what all good pros and students of tennis must learn: that images are better than words, showing better than telling, too much instruction worse than none, and that trying often produces negative results. One question perplexed me: What's wrong with trying? What does it mean to try too hard? PLAYING

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. Summarized

using awareness to "discover the technique

I learned for the first but by no means the last time about the power of acceptance of life and death.

A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN MY ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE art of relaxed concentration came when, while teaching, I again began to notice what was taking place before my eyes.

key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.