Quotes About Learning

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

non-intervention was a deliberate strategy based on the notion that children shouldn't learn how to obey just because adults told them to. Teachers wanted kids to learn self-control for themselves. Even if this took time. "BELIEVE

Highly scheduled lives and early academics aren't what our children's brains evolved to need.

Research has found that student participation drops more as class size increases (Kenney & Banerjee, 2011).

Indeed, humans won't speak or produce language unless they are taught to do so, which means that our remarkable capacity doesn't amount to much at all if someone isn't there to provide a model for how to use it.

Study the past if you would define the future. —Confucius O

It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

As language is learned, it alters how we process information. Just as when we learn to identify a face with a name, it alters how we treat a face-it's not just a face, it's my friend Mike-so learning language results in our automatic labeling of objects, actions, sounds, and even more abstract categories like emotions. This labeling categorizes the item and links it to other instances of the category.

A child's ability to learn many words is so completely different from anything observed in other species that many researchers propose that some neural mechanism must be especially dedicated to this acquisition of linguistic knowledge.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

They say we all have a child within, but that didn't necessarily mean some soul of innocence and lost dreams. Having borne two, Simone knew there was nothing more selfish in the world than a child, until that child is forced to learn that it must share the place with everyone else.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

She has never learnt to yawn And so she hasn't the smallest comprehension Of those who can.

A great city is not something that should be judged by our elders... We should learn from our mistakes, not look back on them, we should use the knowledge that we have to move forward....

Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in the real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime.

imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

First evidence of this is when a toddler points to things. Finger-pointing is code.

Mein eigentliches Werk besteht, allen Ernstes, nicht aus Prosa oder Vers: sondern in der Erkenntnis meiner Dummheit.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.