Quotes About Learning

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss

get busy copying... travelling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means of acquiring a skill.

but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

Caring about their answers will put the other person at ease, but more importantly, it will often put you at ease too. It will get them—and you—into the mode of inquiry, the mode of curiosity, the mode of conversation, and the mode of learning. It will signal that you feel you can learn from them, and encourage them to feel comfortable responding in kind. Most importantly, it will take you out of the realm of the dull, obvious, phony job interview.

This kind of machine-based learning is driven by a hunger for knowledge, not by a desire to show off your talent or to "signal" as we economists say.

If a young learner thinks that all viruses have DNA, that's not going to ruin their chances of success in science. But if a young learner can't understand anything in science and learns to hate it, [then] that will.

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

Share wisdom with those who will receive it.

You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.

to learn. For one thing, who goes to a play on the Fourth of July? People are barbecuing and watching fireworks. Also, I was a total unknown. No one had heard of Tyler Perry, no one knew about my play. Why would they come?

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

Oh, Tookie, I never wagered your lip nookie. In your eyes is the only place I wanna lookie. You've taught me 'bout loving and giving, I was a rookie. You're so pure and sweet. And now I'm hookie. On Tookieeeeee.

BUT I'M NOT A VICTIM; I GROW FROM IT, AND I LEARN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF.

I never just assume that someone is going to come along and tell me everything I need to know, and you shouldn't either. You have to do your research, boo.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

The body is not interested in your perceptions. It is not interested in learning anything from you or knowing anything from you. All the intelligence that is necessary for this living organism is already there. Our attempts to teach this body, or make it function differently from the way it is programmed by nature, are what are responsible for the battle that is going on. There is a battle between what is put in by culture and what is inherent there in the body.

Bilgi sahibi olmadan, fikir sahibi olunmaz.

The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in each individual knower at birth. It also rejects empiricism: Knowledge does not consist of epistemic pieces impressed on the knower by the environment, whether physical or social. Instead, the knower has to construct knowledge.

It is important to keep two key aspects of Piaget's account in mind. First, in Piaget's account, there are no innate modules with adultlike competencies that are suddenly switched on, nor is there any special processing mechanism that, out of the blue, comes online (see OI, p. 100; Piaget, 1967/1971, p. 327, fn.).

To my way of thinking, knowing an object does not mean copying it – it means acting upon it" (Piaget, 1970, p. 15; cf. Piaget & Inhelder, 1966/1971, pp. 385–386).