Quotes About Learning

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

Your personal growth as a leader will be directly tied to your ability to give and receive feedback.

Being "exciting" means the company is continuously learning, improving, innovating, changing. Being part of this is challenging and exciting to everyone. Companies focused on doing this always create new opportunities for individual as well as organizational growth.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.

A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.

What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college students never read another book after college. 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of US adults have not been to a bookstore in the last five years. 57% of new books are not read to completion. Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

Everyone is told just as much as he needs to know, including the self.

All knowledge arises from a relationship between a knower and an object of knowledge.

Within a single information network, processes of collective learning may be more or less powerful in different regions; it is thus possible to imagine regions in which more information is pooled, in greater variety and in greater concentrations, than in other regions. These arguments suggest a useful general principle: the size, diversity, and efficiency of information networks should be an important large-scale determinant of rates of ecological innovation.

People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.

I've been to council estates where there are demonstrations against paedophiles. You stand there, making sure things don't get too out of hand, thinking, 'You're the same parents who sentence your kids to a life of crap jobs, no personal stability, no family life, no support in their learning, no boundaries and no rules.

You learn more by reading more. I'm living proof that the more you learn, the more you earn.

Well then, can I walk along beside you? I have come to lose the smog. And I feel myself a cog in something turning. And maybe it's the time of year, yes, and maybe it's the time of man. And I don't know who I am but life is for learning. We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.