Quotes About Learning

Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket! We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us.

You read those pop-psych books?" "I was engaged to a psychologist for a while a year and a half ago. You hang out with shrinks, you pick up a few things." "Nothing contagious, I trust.

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.

Thus, love had taught her to decipher the mysteries of childhood.

J'ai la peau de l'âme trop sensible. Il faudrait apprendre à son âme à marcher pieds nus.

On nous veut avec les stigmates des grandes écoles, je le veux avec les stigmates de la vie.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Dil öÄŸretimini eÄŸitimin yarars?z yanlar? aras?nda saymama ÅŸa??lacakt?r; ama burada yaln?zca ilk yaÅŸlardaki öÄŸretimden söz ettiÄŸim unutulmamal?; hem ne denirse densin, hiçbir çocuÄŸun, harika çocuklar d???nda, on iki ya da on beÅŸ ya??na kadar gerçekten iki dil öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olaca??n? kesinlikle sanm?yorum.

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

ÖrneÄŸin çocuk gördüÄŸü bir ÅŸeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir ÅŸeyse, o zaman bu ÅŸeyi çocuÄŸa getirmektense çocuÄŸu ona götürmek daha doÄŸru olur: O, bu uygulamadan ya??na göre bir sonuç ç?kar?r ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin baÅŸka hiçbir yolu yoktur.

Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate.

I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can

A frown creased Ayla's forehead. She remembered he had used that word to describe her when she used her sling, and she wasn't sure if she understood the word the way he used it. "Are you artist?" she asked. He made a wry grimace. Her question had touched at the heart of an issue about which he had strong feelings.

Broud is a man now, he will learn to control his temper.

En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan más interesantes; han hecho más o han aprendido algo.

Knowledge is not predetermined by heredity; it is not predetermined in the things around us - in knowing things around him the subject always adds to them.

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly [...] for all the rest of his life.

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]

I packed everything I had into the same suitcase I had brought with me. I was leaving the city with about as much stuff as I had arrived with. But I had learned a lot - about myself and other people.

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.