Quotes About Learning

Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

NeXT computer. But gradually he was learning his lesson. In building devices like the iPod

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. "I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble." It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

I don't think that kids starting out with computers today get as welcome of an entry to programming as I did.

Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4

Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly," Pestalozzi wrote, and "the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated." 58

Uno de los rasgos que distinguen a una gran inteligencia es su disposición a cambiar de parecer, como podemos constatar en el caso de Leonardo.

Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as he did.

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he

El valor de una educación universitaria no es el aprendizaje de muchos datos, sino el entrenamiento de la mente para pensar

Darwin and Wallace had a key trait that is a catalyst for creativity: they had wide-ranging interests and were able to make connections between different disciplines.

At Boston Macworld, as Gates discusses their deal: "That was my worst and stupidest staging event ever. It made me look small.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55 One

Todo conocimiento de la realidad parte de la experiencia y acaba en ella.

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

Despite the fact that Murray was one of the preeminent civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, most people have never heard of her. She achieved her leadership role and her success in subverting white supremacy by learning from her failures and capitalizing on the most incremental successes.

Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55