Quotes About Learning

Failure is always an option.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

I've learned to write by mimicking other writers. It's the way we learned to speak—reproducing sounds—and it's the way, I think, to learn how to write.

We know that children whose parents read them bedtime stories do better than those whose parents do not.

Studies serve for delight , for ornaments and for ability.

Poverty of knowledge is the greatest disaster

Living with real children can be humbling. Every morning I would tell myself, "Today is going to be different

To learn a new language is not easy. For one thing, you will always speak with an accent. . . . But for your children it will be their native tongue!

The teacher said we're only supposed to spend fifteen minutes a night on our math. It took me a whole hour to finish. I must be dumb. PARENT: It can be discouraging when work takes longer than you expect.

Ése es el gran desafío," dije, "cambiar nuestro pensamiento de 'cómo arreglo las cosas yo' a 'cómo capacito a mis hijos para arreglar las cosas por sí mismos.

Refrain from giving the child information she already knows.

we treated both our children and ourselves, that our readers would catch the spirit behind the skills and be inspired to improvise

There is no such thing as a calm, conflict-free life with young children

Every time a parent says to himself, "I wish I hadn't said that. Why didn't I think to say . . . ," he automatically gets another chance. Life with children is open-ended.

Punishment is a very ineffective method of discipline . . . for punishment, strangely enough, often has the effect of teaching the child to behave in exactly the opposite way from the way we want him to behave! Many parents use punishment simply because no one has ever taught them better ways of disciplining their children.

Living with real children can be humbling.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask Big Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's obviously nobody looking out for me. I'll just have to find my own way.

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundlagen eines Wissens, von denen ich auch heute noch zehre.

From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.