Quotes About Learning

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

What was helpful in getting to where the person is today? What wasn't? What has she learned about herself—her strengths, her challenges, her internal scripts and narratives—and what coping strategies and healthier ways of being can she take with her when she leaves?

Those who can't do, teach.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people.

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

because of her foolishness

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.