Quotes About Learning

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Weerlegging is geen ramp, maar de voorwaarde tot de vooruitgang van de wetenschap. Als we dingen met onweerlegbare zekerheid aan de weet konden komen, was er geen wetenschap.

Or the learn rules for the game the sea otters Play in the surf

It is important that we know that we don't know when we're absorbing information. Meta-cognition is, "knowing about knowing". The common mistake that we make is we still continue to read when we no longer understand the context.

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.

Every mistake is a new style.

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher." ? Maya Watson Quote

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Islam's all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we've reduced our religion to fuckin' academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we're getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

What is true forgiveness? M: It is understanding that each creation has their own method of learning and producing, and they're entitled to mistakes, as I am. The growth process isn't perfect, and you must understand that so you don't always remember people for the hurt you imagined from them in the past.

Neither the truth nor the character of history depend, in any way, upon its having some lesson to teach us. And if ever we persuade ourselves that the past has taught us something, we may be certain that it is not the historical past which has been our teacher.

To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .

Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

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