Quotes About Learning

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.

Man starts thinking this late in life, no previous experience or proper guidance

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around

you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

quiet. But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella's room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Usually I could not decipher enough words to make the story have meaning. I burned to learn to read novels and I tortured my mother into telling me the meaning of every strange word I saw, not because the word itself had any value, but because it was the gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land. One

But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

How am I ever going to know all the stuff I need to know? I mean, I need to learn everything. " "Tonight?" Etienne kept a perfectly straight face. "I'm not sure I'm up to it.

And it occurred to me by the time I was a teenager that I had become part of the land, every bit as much a part of it as sparrow eggs or thrasher nest, garter snake or oak tree, and that the rest of my life, or anyone's life, would be a gradual learning process, a journey toward fitting into one's home, for those of us lucky enough to still recognize what is home...that which we are a part of, rather than estranged from. And rather than using the word lucky, perhaps I should use the word grace.

Pelo bem do conforto, abrimos mão de conhecer o mundo.

All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?! You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness! Your judgement is shit! Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.

Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. "Go on, Professor Grace!" he said, wide-eyed. "I wanna get an A on the test.

Grover murmured, Well, Percy, what have we learned today? That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks? No, Grover told me. We've learned that your plans really, really bite!

Leo drummed his fingers. "Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time." Hazel frowned. "What is a chicken nugget?" "Oh, man…" Leo shook his head in amazement. "That's right. You've missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—" "Doesn't matter," Annabeth interrupted.

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals

So why are we practicing this, anyway? Percy asked. Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut's five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Unbelievable, I murmured. After four thousand years, I am still discovering new things. Like how dumb you are, Meg volunteered. No. So you already knew that?

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.