Quotes About Learning

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea—a philosophy major, no less—is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

We don't constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

Nicholas Guild

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

we have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous Huxley, 1934

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang

My journey was like the one in the book. That is the thing about books. You take their journeys with you. You came home with something more than just the remains of a fish. The book was never about the fish.