Quotes About Learning

Well, Lily, we must go through a little dreadfulness, that's a fact: no road to any good knowledge is wholly among the lilies and the grass; there is rough climbing to be done always.

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but to enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. –

Part of being open to learning is taking risks!

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

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Well, you gotta keep up," Kidd said. He paused, looked up at the sky, then said, "You know, I take that back. Really, maybe you don't need to keep up. Maybe keeping up is for idiots.

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Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

Well, life is like that sometimes, Isabel said. We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

Just accept you're drinking from the fire hose and open wide.

And also because I know if I've figured it out, someone else has too, because there's always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.

The goal shouldn't be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious—to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.

You need to explain this to me like I'm an idiot," I said. "Because clearly I am.

That's aging's trump card; they still can't replace brains.

I find some amusement at the idea of you as a child, of you reaching no higher than my waist, of you big-eyed, and your big head wobbly on your neck, looking at the world with curiosity if not comprehension, needing to wait years to know enough to know how little you know.

As the Big Shift takes hold, companies are no longer places that exist to drive down costs by getting increasingly bigger. They're places that support and organize talented individuals to get better faster by working with others. The rationale of the firm shifts from scalable efficiency to scalable learning—the ability to improve performance more rapidly and learn faster by effectively integrating more and more participants distributed across traditional institutional boundaries.

Institutional leaders will need to seek out "reverse mentors" among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices.

the success of creation spaces can be traced back to careful design at the outset by a small group of people who were very thoughtful about the conditions required to foster or "scaffold" scalable collaboration, learning, and performance improvement.

When people chase what they love, they will inevitably seek out and immerse themselves in knowledge flows, drinking deeply from new creative wells even as they contribute their own experiences and insights along the way.

No one will be able to effectively participate in relevant knowledge flows without possessing useful knowledge stocks of their own. People who reach out to connect with others to simply take knowledge will find that these interactions quickly dry up as others begin to realize they have little to gain from these connections. As in all relationships, reciprocity is essential. Knowledge stocks thus become both a means and an end to participation in knowledge flows.

According to Hidary, most people become too dependent on one facet of their lives. And when one facet takes up 80 percent of somebody's total exposed surface area, they tend to become defensive around it, protective. They become "experts." They treat what they know as a stock rather than a flow, and they tend to isolate themselves from flows of new knowledge and the people creating them.