Quotes About Learning

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

Will Ferguson

I speak Japanese the way a bear dances. It's not that the bear dances well that impresses people, it's the fact the bear dances at all.)

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Consider

In this new narrative, learning ceases to focus on consuming information or knowledge that's no longer scarce. Instead, it's about asking questions, working with others to find the answers, doing real work for real audiences, and adding to, not simply taking from, the storehouse of knowledge that the Web is becoming. It's about developing the kinds of habits and dispositions that deep, lifelong learners need to succeed in a world rife with information and connections.

learning a passion to learn is more important for your practical success than learning any particular facts or skills.

Access doesn't automatically come with an ability to use the Web well.

that the new opportunities for learning require us to articulate a fundamental revision of the value of school and the roles of teachers and classrooms. The

By forcing schools and teachers to teach to the test, it has narrowed the educational experiences of millions of children and thus deprived our children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, of a real education.

Work is learning, and learning is the work.

if you're waiting for the Twitter workshop, you're missing the point.

Students are encouraged to connect with others, and to collaborate and create with them on a global scale. It's not "do your own work," so much as "do work with others, and make it work that matters." To paraphrase Tony Wagner, assessments focus less on what students know, and more on what they can do with what they know.

can. If it's just about tests to graduate, grades to get into college, and scores for international comparisons — which, in large part, it is right now — school is about to be disrupted big time. I

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

I'd go so far as to say that I want my own kids to be found by strangers on the Internet. (I'll let that hang there for a moment.) Certainly, I want them to be found by the right strangers, the ones who share their passions and want to learn with them. And I want them to be able to discern between good and bad strangers.

Eric Hoffer sums up where our emphasis should be in schools right now: "In times of great change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Let

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

at least half of the time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can't end up in the Friday Folder? That the reason they're doing their schoolwork isn't just for a grade or for it to be pinned up in the hallway? It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.