Quotes About Learning

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

You learn from your mistakes.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.