Quotes About Learning

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

il confine è il luogo migliore per acquisire conoscenza.

We have got ethical in so many places I begin to wish I had not given up geography at school.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.

La philosophie ne consiste-t-elle pas, après tout, à faire semblant d'ignorer ce que l'on sait et de savoir ce que l'on ignore?

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

Het uitgangspunt van competentiegericht onderwijs richt zich op de vaardigheden die van belang zijn voor een baan.

It is the return of a dog to his vomit.

Ce qui m'intéressait était l'érudition : elle est un « jeu de vérité » amusant, qui découvre, déchiffre, explique ou explicite l'inconnu ou le méconnu ; elle est donc prête à croire que toute « vérité » reçue a des chances d'être fausse, au risque de déplaire, de mettre l'opinion au défi.

Embrace training and explore every opportunity it opens for your mind to learn, I'm a great believer of Lifelong Learning.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Education and democracy have the same goal: The fullest possible development of human capabilities

A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education. It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn more themselves from the real world. From that moment on the majority always look for the most promising place the highest wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling always collapsing over lifes education.

Constant learning is the dream of the wise; stupidity however is the history of mankind. I am sure that one day the younger generation will be ready to read books again and will wonder why they didn't enjoy them before.

For me the mark of a great History teacher is the ability to take students to places outside the classroom while staying in the classroom.

The truth is that we are all born into this world quite ignorant, personally I like to think of my behavior in my youth as a "learning experience." I have a great many regrets, and I'm sure most everyone does. However as a Headmaster I now feel that I must protect the memory of those stupid things, so I can teach the value of them to my students. However if they don't want my advice they can always go get a "learning experience" for themselves!

How can I get better by getting sicker first?

It's just about impossible to be perfect all the time. In fact, some days it's hard to do anything right. But sometimes things go really well. There are a lot of new things to learn, a lot of new rules and regulations.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.