Quotes About Learning

Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let's try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.

Schools are prisons for the lucky kids and prisons are schools for the unlucky kids.

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It'd be free, self-paced, and available to all. It'd show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you're already here. Careful who you follow.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

You get educated by traveling.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Responsibility educates.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before.

When you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while – give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost – but, then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake.

There is no failure. Only feedback.

We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

I am a product of my failures.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

"No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book."

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."