Quotes About Learning

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

you only know something once you've experienced it in your life, life is our greatest test.

Did you win? he asks. It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

Later that same day I ask a white friend about white people speaking among themselves about their racism. It doesn't happen, she tells me. Nonetheless, she believes, that's how whites would learn to build stamina regarding their collusion with structural racism.

It was a lesson.

But I still have questions, and the way to get answers is to bear her corrections.

La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida

One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself

I did get a degree in special education.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

Indeed, while experiences and information can be good teachers, there are many times in life where we simply cannot afford to learn on the job. You don't want to have to go through multiple marriages to learn how to be a good spouse. Or wait until your last child has grown to master parenthood. This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

There were three terrible ages of childhood -- zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy.

I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

As computers replace textbooks, students will become more computer literate and more book illiterate. They'll be exploring virtual worlds, watching dancing triangles, downloading the latest web sites. But they won't be reading books.

Weaned on educational games and multimedia encyclopedias, kids naturally seek out the trivial when forced to read books. While visiting a school librarian, I listened to a high school senior seek help with an assignment: "I'm writing a report about Napoleon," he said. "Can you find me a thin book with lots of pictures?