Quotes About Learning

Collective inquiry is less prone to error than is solitary inquiry, individualism in this case being an impediment to knowledge.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Loving underlies effective learning: indeed, it is the basis of all cultural transference and interchange. No teaching machine can supply this.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training a mere beginner.

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

I have no urge to go back to college.

Everything in my life has come from an urge to share. Everything I've learned is from friends, family and copying.

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

The most urgent task of any college is the transmission of knowledge, pure and simple.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.