Quotes About Learning

each of us special and individual? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?

I'm watching an operation, I told her. It's to do with the pancreas. It's amazing, Madame. The surgeon is removing something called the tail. It's a complex and delicate operation, but the surgeon makes it look so easy. He's using all sorts of tools and he's so quick and precise. But what I keep wondering is, could Artificial Friends learn to do things like this themselves?

Though you must understand, it's still work in progress. And it's not always easy for a layperson to understand the way these things slowly take shape.

That while it was right to look up to teachers, it was always important to question their authority.

It is important to learn how to fail, to learn how to be wrong in a way that minimizes pain to you and others and maximizes what you can learn from the experience.

Un giorno, forse non molto lontano, imparerai come ci si sente ». Così rimani in attesa, anche se non sai esattamente di cosa, in attesa del momento in cui comprenderai che sei davvero diversa da loro;

There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

Este trigo hundirá sus vigorosas raíces en la tierra, soportará el frío, el viento y la nieve, y crecerá con fuerza apuntando al cielo. Con el tiempo, terminará coronándose de una espléndida espiga. Aprended del trigo, hijos míos.

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what? and the why? of the big picture.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime."? It's the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.

a baby's failure to reach for an object hidden under a blanket does not support the rather dramatic conclusion that the baby thinks the object has ceased to exist. Perhaps he simply does not yet have sufficient hand-arm coordination to reach for a hidden object. In fact, we now know that this explanation is correct. Recent experiments, more sophisticated than Piaget's, indicate that even very young babies have a well-developed sense of object permanency.

How do we educate such individuals? We concentrate on the conceptual thinking that lies behind all the specific techniques of mathematics. Remember that old adage, "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime."? It's the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.

Derek) No casting? No practicing? He shook his head. Don't tell Simon that. Don't tell Simon what? said a voice behind us. We turned to see Simon step out of the doorway. That Tori doesn't need to use incantations to cast, Derek said. Seriously? He swore. You're right. Don't tell me. He picked his way across the roof. Better yet, don't tell her that I need incantations and weeks of practice, and I still suck.

Annie used to have a motorcycle, he said, and she'd taught him to ride it. He also knew how to hot-wire one. I wasn't asking how. Like I said, his life experience wasn't ours.

It's easy not to find out things, if you try hard enough.

The thing about teaching and having children is that you always ended up treating your children like undergraduates, and your undergraduates like children.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Lenin's idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two.

Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it's better than money in the bank.

Growing up is learning to deceive.