Quotes About Learning

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

The young Johnson was what Coleridge liked to call a 'library cormorant', a rapacious creature nesting among books.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

If I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience and experience only," I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost."

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose," said Isabel

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published

million initiative in digital media and learning. They are published openly online (as well as in print) in

MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative in digital media and learning. They

Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything

history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of all books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking—the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

Most medical students go through a brief period when they develop all manner of imaginary illnesses – I myself had leukaemia for at least four days – until they learn, as a matter of self-preservation, that illnesses happen to patients, not to doctors.

Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at