Quotes About Learning

The task of the teacher is to serve the students with his knowledge and scientific experience and not to imprint upon them his personal political views.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

Knowledge Gives You Power.

In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.

So remember you make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you—anything.

For those who are interested in learning more about Lecky's work, I recommend securing a copy of his book, Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality. (Note: This book is now out of print.)

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past. What matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered, reinforced, and dwelt upon.

Holland, a recognized authority on teaching piano, recommends that all pianists "practice in their heads." A new composition, he says, should be first gone over in the mind.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

a person has to start in the present to acquire some maturity so that the future may be better than the past. The present and the future depend on learning new habits and new ways of looking at old problems

YOUR CASE HISTORY List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.