Quotes About Learning

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

When two people are in Judger, the one who wakes up first has an advantage. That person can choose to go Learner and turn the situation around for both of them.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

when you walk into the classroom, your own mindset makes all the difference in the world. It affects how you connect or don't connect with each child, and in turn how they connect with you.

Like everyone else, I believed the way to fix a problem was to look for the right answers. Instead, Joseph showed me that the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions. The skills he taught me rescued my career and saved my marriage as well.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. —Tad Williams

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

It's almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.

Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.

Someday, I will stop being surprised at all the things librarians read; they'll read anything.)

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.