Quotes About Learning

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, "is not knowledge but action." And

Recordemos que Emerson dijo: Todos los hombres que encuentro son superiores a mí en algún sentido; y en tal sentido puedo aprender de todos.

Observe Nature, study her laws, and obey them in your speaking.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

Pasaré una sola vez por este camino; de modo que cualquier bien que pueda hacer o cualquier cortesía que pueda tener para con cualquier ser humano, que sea ahora. No la dejaré para mañana, ni la olvidaré, porque nunca más volveré a pasar por aquí. Emerson dijo: Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él".

Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.

The ability to read opened up a new and magic world for him, a world he had never dreamed of before. It changed him. It broadened his horizon and gave him vision; and, for a quarter of a century, reading remained the dominant passion of his life.

I once spent almost two years writing a book on public speaking and yet I found I had to keep going back over it from time to time in order to remember what I had written in my own book. The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing.

For example, you have a right to be first, at least sometimes. You are allowed to make mistakes, as long as you intend to learn from them. You have a right to say you don't have enough time for something, if in fact you really don't have enough time. STEP 2: Conducting an Honest Self-assessment Most feelings of submissiveness or aggressiveness have their roots in early life.

Let's keep a record of the fool things we have done and criticize ourselves. Since we can't hope to be perfect, let's do what E.H. Little did: let's ask for unbiased, helpful, constructive criticism.

There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.

Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life

John, she said, does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things? He paused and smiled. I am afraid it does, he said.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. Such

Long they stood together, peering over the gray unresting water. John, she said, does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things? He paused and smiled. I am afraid it does, he said. And, John, are you glad you studied? Yes, came the answer, slowly but positively. She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully, I wish I was unhappy,—and—and, putting both arms about his neck, I think I am, a little, John.

XV. FOUNDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL How the freedman yearned to learn and know, and with the guiding hand of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Northern school-marm, helped establish the Public School in the South and taught his own teachers in the New England college transplanted to the black South.