Quotes About Learning

Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos, and glitzy fonts... or do they need more time climbing, running, and figuring out how to get along with each other?

Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.

A teacher can't teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher about her view of writing. The little girl said, Good writing requires a good vocabulary. A good writer requires a good conduct in many ways.

People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.

Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — ... "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — ... "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

In those days you matched a block of balsa against a rudimentary diagram and got going with a razor blade, which sliced your thumb as readily as it carved the balsa. If the result was recognizable as an aeroplane, you were an expert. If your thumb was recognizable as a thumb, you were a genius.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that's what you're doing, until experience teaches you that you aren't being brief enough.

the American-affiliated students were incomparably better informed than the locals—incomparably more intelligent all round, to put it bluntly—but the one thing the Americans could not do to save their lives was recite the verse in front of them.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Do not speak of what you do not know.