Quotes About Learning

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?

El hecho es que el ordenador está aquí para quedarse y los niños saben utilizarlo y nosotros no. Incluso el lenguaje.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations—unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

What is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance," writes the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "rather than the quality of experience." But what if we don't want to become virtuoso musicians or renowned artists? What if we only want to dabble in these things, to see if they might subtly change our outlook on the world or even, as we try to learn them, change us? What if we just want to enjoy them?

Children, in a very real sense, have beginners' minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they're less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won't ask.

If you want to improve in chess," wrote Ericsson, "you don't do it by playing chess. You do it with solitary study of the grandmasters' games.

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," writes Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

We often interrupt people at the beginner stage, forgetting that talent can take time.

The adoption of tastes is driven in part by this social jockeying, this learning and avoidance. But this is not the whole picture. Sometimes tastes change simply because of errors and randomness.

Take the most notes on the first day. That's when you see the most.

cultivation, of that spirit of the novice: the naïve optimism, the hypervigilant alertness that comes with novelty and insecurity, the willingness to look foolish, and the permission to ask obvious questions—the unencumbered beginner's mind.

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.