Quotes About Learning

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

Service learning connects classroom studies to real-world issues, with hands-on activities and problem solving. Youth can study biology and ecology by testing the water in their own community; or learn about statistics, calculating the food supply and usage at the local food bank.

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of money.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

I studied film studies at USC.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

Failure gets a bad rap, but I'd like to change that. Failure is necessary. Let it in. Chew it up, and use it as fuel for your soul.

There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.