Quotes About Learning

But you can't sit around waiting for a mentor to find you. You have to search for them, and that may mean looking beyond your immediate department or area. Your

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

I had very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing, so I set out to learn. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.

Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, "Maybe it'll come with age," I want to say, "I wouldn't count on it.

I've learned that everything that thinks and feels," she said, "grows by subtraction. Detachment brings perspective. Wisdom comes from letting go. It's true for humans, too, but most of them seem to struggle with it.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, Maybe it'll come with age, I want to say, 'I wouldn't count on it.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

Because school has always been a matter of getting it right, of scoping out what "rightness" means to the teacher and then providing this.

Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything.

Even if we die, if we have to become monsters and everyone hates us, we have to read the book because it will teach us how to avoid the alligator's jaws, the wolves who wait in the forest, the huge snakes, and how to become birds.

Language gets learned in the context of interaction—in the context of eating and playing and asking for the names of things, not passively looking at a computer monitor. And that's