Quotes About Learning

For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could demonstrate to you that I have done nothing but continue the reading of a single book.

There is still, in fact, in Calvino's archive a drawer full of newspaper cuttings concerning scientific discoveries. As

I expect readers to read in my books something I didn't know, but I can expect it only from those who expect to read something they didn't know.

Ogni vita è un enciclopedia, una biblioteca, un campionario di stili, dove tutto può essere continuamente rimescolato e riordinato in tutti i modi possibili

I read, therefore it writes

In gioventù ogni libro nuovo che si legge è come un nuovo occhio che si apre e modifica la vista degli altri occhi o libri-occhi che si avevano prima.

A partir de entonces, cuando se veía al muchacho en los árboles podíamos estar seguros de que mirando delante de él, ocerca, se veía al salchicha Óptimo Máximo trotando con la barriga en el suelo. Le había enseñado el rastreo, la muestra, la cobranza: los trabajos de todas las especies de perros de caza, y no había animal del bosque que no cazaran juntos.

Non si creda che i classici vanno letti perché "servono" a qualcosa. La sola ragione che si può addurre è che leggere i classici è meglio che non leggere i classici. E se qualcuno obietta che non val la pena di far tanta fatica, citerò Cioran: «Mentre veniva preparata la cicuta, Socrate stava imparando un'aria sul flauto. "A cosa ti servirà?" gli fu chiesto. "A sapere quest'aria prima di morire"».

Kim ise ö?renci, en büyük arzusu nedenlerle sonuçlar? belli bir mant??a, kesinli?e oturtmak, ne var ki zihnine her an yan?tlanmam?? sorular ü?ü?üyor.

However vast any person's basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.

Who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read. . . . Each life is an encyclopedia, a library.

Capirai quando avrai dimenticato quello che capivi prima

Tengo un librito, mucho más breve que los de Aristóteles y Ovidio, en el que están contenidas todas las ciencias y cualquiera puede, con poquísimo estudio, formarse de él una idea perfecta: es el alfabeto;

He who doesn't know and doesn"t know that he doesn't know doesn"t know that he is a fool the man who never makes a single mistake is the man who never tries

I speak from my present level of ignorance. The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.

If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn something very quickly, you forget it immediately.

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.

P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling.

P8- mere existence of school discourages and disables the poor from taking control of their own learning.

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.

a great deal of learning even now seems to happen casually and as a by-product of some other activity defined as work or leisure does not mean that planned learning does not benefit from planned instruction and that both do not stand in need of improvement.

A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.