Quotes About Learning

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF "If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don't really want funding from, because you're probably going to suck in the beginning. I sucked for a really long time." TF:

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." Peter Blois in Theology of the Reformers

It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

ÖÄŸretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya haz?r olan "düÅŸünen" s?n?f?n genç üyeleri ile s?k s?k sorun yaÅŸarlar. Bu s?n?f?n yaln?zca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalmas? yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya haz?rd?rlar böylece onlar? geliÅŸtirebilirler.

Just Say Know

One cannot learn the things that unmask wisdom at the speed to which we have become accustomed in contemporary living. There are no short cuts.

A year and a day of study and spiritual practice offers students the chance to move at this natural pace in their learning. It gives them the opportunity to learn, just as the ancients did, through personal experience, trial and error—which are all guided by the experienced hand of a trained elder.

Timothy S. Lane

Remember, you can't avoid conflict, but it can be a place where amazing growth takes place!

I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you're going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts. (from The Economist article "The reading wars" 6/12/2021)

get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct

Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex. Our own tradition demands that we examine history to understand the deep sources of tyranny, and to consider the proper responses to it. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

When we learn them from a screen, however, we tend to be drawn in by the logic of spectacle. When we learn of one scandal, it whets our appetite for the next.

One class of elementary school students, for example, sent a letter to party authorities asking "for your help, since we are falling down from hunger. We should be learning, but we are too hungry to walk."75

to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

To forbid analogies makes the Holocaust irrelevant to future generations. If an American child can identify with Anne Frank, an American child might ask what it is like for immigrant children to be separated from their parents. To forbid analogies is to forbid learning, and to forbid empathizing. That, sadly, is the point.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.