Quotes About Learning

It is surprising how little page space is devoted to bugs and debugging in most introductory programming textbooks.

We don't know enough yet to recommend typed or untyped languages for novices.

If you are teaching in a free-range setting, your learners are probably volunteers, and probably want to be in your classroom. The exercise therefore isn't how to motivate them, but how to not demotivate them. Unfortunately, you can do this by accident much more easily than you might think.

People today. You know how to work everything, but you don't know how anything works.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

a professional project, relationship, or school assignment doesn't turn out the way that was expected, we can always learn from our experiences and do things differently the next time around.

The things you learn growing up in and out of prison, Allander thought. A practical education.

He didn't just remember his grief, he relearned it.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

It's my first day teaching," I say to her, "Give me some advice." "Two things," she says, "One: know all their names by tomorrow. Two: It's more important that they know you than that they know what you know.

Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

I remember hearing Charlie Bright describe his first day as a teacher as being painfully awkward. "The kids were new to 3rd grade. I was new to any grade," he said. "It was kind of like being on a first date.

With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a good, balanced meal.

Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

The dead sing us songs I'm learning to answer.