Quotes About Learning

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time

Sometimes I put a star in the right-hand corner to signal that this paper has thinking on it that I might want to share in a mini-lesson the next day.

Okay, you guys, look up here. Omar did something good readers do.

Before students leave, I ask for an exit ticket. I have students record on a sticky note one question they have about the book.

Stiggins's Seven Practices of Assessment FOR Learning Where am I going? Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target. Use examples and models of strong and weak work. Where am I now? Offer regular descriptive feedback. Teach students to self-assess and set goals. How can I close the gap? Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time. Teach students focused revision. Engage students in self-reflection, and let them keep track of and share their learning.

put my copy on the document camera so students can see how I read and annotate as I go.

After about four minutes of modeling what I want students to do on their own, I release the class to choose an article for themselves that they think will address a question they have. Students head to the table at the front of the room where the articles are arranged.

Anyone who doesn't have a question, meet me at the table in the front.

Good readers perceive reading as something they will do for their entire life, not just to pass a class.

That's what teachers get paid for, isn't it? How am I supposed to know when I don't get something? I'm just a kid.

I'm sick and tired of you telling the class that it's our job to know when we know and know when we don't know You're the teacher. Aren't you the one who is supposed to know

students don't expect to understand what they read.

They wait to be told what it is they have read. If no one does that, they just don't get it.

They made the same mistakes over and over again because they weren't conscious of what they were doing.

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.

graces. No matter what your future may be, now is not meant to be a time of waiting. Instead, God is teaching you something each step along the way, preparing you to take His hand and walk with Him, trusting that God will lead you to healing.

I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.

Some day, you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me try to teach you how to flap your wings.