Quotes About Learning

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I read in self-defense.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

El experimento del profesor Kugelmass Entretanto, quiero un trabajo o tomar clases, porque mirar la tele todo el santo día es morirse.

Metí la pata. Perdóneme. El hecho de que usted no se percatara de que faltaba una carta indica igualmente cierto despiste por su parte, que yo, por la mía,atribuyo a su impaciencia, pero Dios sabe que todos cometemos errores. Así es la vida. Y el ajedrez.

She said they should view the marriage as a learning experience and, rather than have any regrets, they should focus instead on the alimony

I, like a fatuous dunce who didn't realize how bad I was, jumped right in with the confidence of a true know-nothing. I practiced

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it.

If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.

but that it is only the writings and precepts of the philosophers and other fine writers that are the true riches, because they enrich with virtue the minds of those that possess them. Euthydemus

Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians; for I have constantly avoided learning anything from the physicians, and even the appearance of having studied their art. Nevertheless I ask you to appoint me to the office of a physician, and I will endeavour to learn by experimenting on you.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

shelf, stand mountains of neatly stacked cans and packages. A reserve of food to last the siege of Leningrad. CHAPTER 7 It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match.

Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

Their real strength was their ears: Theseus and Hercules were lifelong learners and equal-opportunity students, always seeking advice and just as happy to get it from women. That was the mark of a hero and the signature of pankration: total power and knowledge.