Quotes About Learning

I have witnessed both good and bad teachers. Too many times teachers, or "instructors," want to wear the title or the T-shirt, if you will, to satisfy their own egos.

Keep your life as simple and efficient as possible. How? Learn with each stumble or failure. Failure is only an opportunity to excel. The perception in which your mind chooses to visualize your challenges in life will enable your successes or enhance your failures.

You must also understand that with muscle memory, at least two to three thousand repetitions are necessary to help master a simple skill.

As noted earlier, current theory states that it takes two thousand to three thousand repetitions to master a physical act or develop physical "muscle memory." I believe it takes an equal amount of "mental muscle memory" to ingrain a thought process or act.

Students and instructors will reinvent the wheel by bringing back old discarded techniques, as new or new and improved.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Did one learn or was one shaped?

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion, of being again committed to a tragic course of action, having learned nothing from that other time or those other times

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all

WHAT YOU ARE DOING ALREADY. WE WILL SHARE MUCH MORE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE. ALTHOUGH YOU UNDERSTAND A LOT, WE WILL SHOW YOU MUCH MORE. CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT COME TO YOU. WE ARE AWARE OF THE SMALL GROUPS THAT ARE FORMING AROUND THE WORLD AND WE HAVE ADVICE. YOU WILL RECEIVE MORE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO COME TO YOU. THESE GROUPS FORMING AROUND THE WORLD ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE PREPARED TO LEARN. CONSIDER THEM THE CORE. THEN YOU WILL HAVE THOSE WHO WILL SEEK YOU OUT, WHO ARE STILL IN FEAR. ONCE THEY ARE OVER THE FEAR, THEN THEY WILL BE READY FOR THE CORE GROUP. MOST IMPORTANT IS THE CONDITION OF YOUR PLANET. THE FIRST STEP IN SOLVING THIS SERIOUS PROBLEM IS AMNESTY.

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.

And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Nothing is more satisfying in travel than to land in a place and assume an occupation, even a temporary one, as a teacher.

Read to live better.

The paradox was more likely that an excess of money was the problem—or one of them; that, and a government run by thieves. But I was just learning, and I thought, as one does in such circumstances: Maybe things will improve farther up the road.

Meanwhile, el taller, two hours in the morning, a discussion over lunch, always an outing and often dinner: full days with two dozen students who had become my friends. I had not taught in a classroom for more than forty years, and rediscovered the pleasure of the back-and-forth with intelligent, engaged students. I was eager to meet them each day, I enjoyed their company, and I was grateful for their companionship.

Paul Theroux

What I saw, what I experienced, the freedom of the trip, the people I met, the things I learned: my days were filled with road candy.

All this confession and evasion, in the relentless interrogation of language learning, sometimes led to awkwardness.

People always tell you that night school is a good thing,' I said. 'But they are the same people who go home after a day's work and eat and snooze and listen to the radio. You students are doing one of the hardest things in the world- studying at night, when you're tired ...

Any advice for me? I'm driving south." "Don't drive at night. You'll be fine. You'll learn a lot. And Mexico City is a lot safer than it used to be.