Quotes About Learning

If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

We thus advocate a "transactional" causality: maturational capacities create the possibility of new kinds of experiences and learning, and then those learning experiences are the proximate causes of development.

is a typology of four types of learning and experience that play key roles—at different ages in diverse domains—in human cognitive and social ontogeny: (1) individual learning, (2) observational learning (imitation and so forth), (3) pedagogical or instructed learning, and (4) social co-construction (prototypically in peer collaboration).

Word learning is thus not about putting labels on things but rather is about acquiring conventional means for coming to share attention with others in a variety of complex social contexts.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

He's a guy who really hated school," said Bannon. "And he's not going to start liking it now.

Careers advance by how well you learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp and play its game.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered.

Like the entire Saudi leadership, MBS had, practically speaking, no education.

For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—"professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up and left the room.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

No licenses? But how do you keep out bad entertainers and merchandise?" "Hey, bad ones have to learn somewhere. And shoddy merch gets noticed pretty quickly.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Since I would rather make of him [the child] an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide [tutor] with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.