Quotes About Learning

I worked with Mrs. Davis for four years, and then she realized, as the material started getting harder, that I had never learned to read. I was just listening as she'd play the song, and I'd play it back. When that happened, she got very upset and stopped being my teacher.

My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can't get enough of him.

The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside.

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

My dad used to do a lot of music when he was young, so he had an 8-track MiniDisc recorder, and when he realized that I was getting on with it, he brought it upstairs to my room and showed me how to record and how, once you finished eight tracks, you can cut it down to two and have another six tracks to play with.

After going to a few Keith Urban concerts, I thought, 'I'd really like to learn how to play guitar.' I studied Keith Urban a lot and how he performed.

I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I definitely got into it a lot.

We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

During the making of 'Abdullah' I asked the assistant director to teach me Hindi; he taught me to read the script too. He also taught me Urdu. Now I can sign autographs in Hindi, Urdu and can write my name in Tamil.

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.

I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.

They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Play is the work of the child.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.