Quotes About Learning

admitamos rápidamente y con entusiasmo el error.

Lincoln guardou a carta pois aprendera, por meio de experiências amargas, que críticas duras e reprovações quase nunca geram algo de útil.

encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, "is not knowledge but action.

PRINCIPLE 4 Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at the Montreal General Hospital

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?

I started looking back and now understand how wrong I was.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

El mundialmente famoso psicólogo B. F. Skinner comprobó, mediante experimentación con animales, que premiando la buena conducta los animales aprenden más rápido y retienen con más eficacia que castigando la mala conducta. Estudios posteriores probaron lo mismo aplicado a los seres humanos.

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

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

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.

Talk About Your Own Mistakes First

Se ha de enseñar a los hombres como si no se les enseñara. Y proponerles cosas ignoradas como si fueran olvidadas.

Sólo sé que no sé nada".

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

Bien, escuche. Yo pienso de otro modo, pero quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia... Y si me equivoco, quiero corregir mi error.