Quotes About Learning

All this she must possess», added Darcy, «and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading».

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than that of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

We are very much disposed to like our new maid; she knows nothing of a dairy, to be sure, which, in our family, is rather against her, but she is to be taught it all. In short, we have felt the inconvenience of being without a maid so long, that we are determined to like her, and she will find it a hard matter to displease us. As yet, she seems to cook very well, is uncommonly stout, and says she can work well at her needle.

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

He was evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

We tend to think that if a student is using a computer as part of an activity, then it's automatically a good activity. After all, they're using technology! But when we look at the results of that time spent at the computer, we really should be asking ourselves, how did this use of technology improve student learning?

I've come to believe that students would benefit more if we moved away from teaching them how to use technology and toward teaching them how to use technology to learn and think.

So, what do we need to do to move from using technology to using technology to learn? It's a pedagogical shift to go from designing activities with technology integrated for technology's sake to designing learning experiences with technology integrated to promote innovation and thinking.

Research shows that the average elementary teacher may ask as many as 348 questions a day (Sadker & Sadker, 1982), whereas the students may not ask any.

When teachers grade by activities, it's nearly impossible to unpack the resulting data to show where the student needs to make gains. However, when teachers score by deconstructing an activity score into different benchmarks in the grade book, patterns emerge and become useful for describing the learner's performance, giving specific feedback about it, and making decisions about what to do next.

Herman glowered, saying that clearly only Americans were historians now. 'They have so little of it to learn,' said Dulcie.

Children—and adults—who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world.

When I was young, I knew that, somehow, I would go to Africa and live with animals. And I wanted to write books about them. I don't think I spent too much time wondering exactly how I would do it. I just felt sure that the right opportunity would somehow come. I didn't feel frustrated because I could not go a really long trip while Rusty was still alive. It would have seemed like a betrayal. And while I waited I went on learning.

The naturalist," Jane said, "looks for the wonder of nature—she listens to the voice of nature and learns from nature as she tries to understand it. Whereas a scientist is more focused on facts and the desire to quantify. For a scientist, the question is, 'Why is this adaptive? How does it contribute to the survival of the species?

And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

educate them.

I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we're destroying it before we've even finished learning about it.

Children—and adults—who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world. But

I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we're destroying it before we've even finished learning about it. We think we are smarter than nature, but we are not. Our human intellect is amazing, but we must be humble and recognize that there is an even greater intelligence in nature.

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

because they're learning and listening while they play.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.