Quotes About Learning

Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.

We can't just erase the history we don't like, then there won't be any lessons to be learned.

Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?

Rather than counseling despair, educating for the unknown favors a vision of learning aggressive in its effort to foster curiosity, enlightenment, empowerment, and responsibility in a complex and dynamic world. It favors a broad and visionary reach for meaningful learning.

El currículo y los cursos deberían estar organizados no en torno a las respuestas, sino a las grandes ideas, preguntas y problemas para los que el contenido representa la respuesta.

The questions produced before studying the topic turned out to be much deeper and more exciting. It seemed that the formal study of the topic had quenched students' sense of its mystery.

Harpaz argumenta que las escuelas tienen que convertir lo extraño en algo conocido para presentar a los alumnos conocimientos nuevos, pero también volver lo familiar extraño, que incomode y desafíe las ideas simples y las respuestas insustanciales, un proceso delicado que tiene que detenerse justo cuando esté a punto de que el receptor adopte una postura defensiva rotunda.

In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

The fixation on the heap of information in the textbooks is itself part of the problem because the world we are educating learners for is something of a moving target, itself as much unknown as known.

challenging the mind fortifies new neural networks. Much in the way our muscles gain strength and functionality when physically challenged through exercise, the brain similarly rises to the challenges of intellectual stimulation.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

You can keep me out of Harvard, but you cannot keep me uneducated. As long as there are books to read, I control my education. We will fight to dismantle the barriers in higher education, but we own the education of our minds.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

The purpose of this book is not to make you more worried. The purpose of this book is to make you more smart.

disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.

Everything important we learn too late.

Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

But the fact remains that copying is one of the most time-honored training methods in the art world.It forms the basis of the whole concept of apprenticeship.

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

In surviving the wave circumstance you learn lessons that you can use to survive the life circumstance.

Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful.

Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)