Quotes About Learning

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence," he told one of his daughters.24 Time spent at study was never wasted. "Knowledge," Jefferson said, "indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

If you treat people as monuments you limit the capacity to teach. (on Armchair Expert podcast)

Unless he convinced himself that no great life was without its mishaps and its mistakes, he would not be able to return to the arena.

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live... - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to "liberate" humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization.

A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight, she said. If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.

Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.

We are preparing a generation of robots. Kids are learning exclusively through rote. We have children who are given no conceptual framework. They do not learn to think, because their teachers are straitjacketed by tests that measure only isolated skills. As a result, they can be given no electives, nothing wonderful or fanciful or beautiful, nothing that touches the spirit or the soul.

exercise his brain and keep him fed, but how to gain any traction? Books, he thought. Books, books, books. Books to get him somewhere. Books to turn him into someone. Books to grab hold of on his way up. Books as a way to be alone without feeling so alone.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.

The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on--and something insipid about the parade of grinning letters defeated Dylan's will utterly.

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)

A simple, elegant game. Like riding a bicycle, once you've learned you can hardly fail to pick it up again, that is unless the brakes are out of order.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning

The earlier you intervene, the less likely that people will get defensive. The more real-time and specific your feedback is, the easier it is for people to receive it and learn from it. The

Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for

With writing, we have second chances.