Quotes About Learning

The purpose of schools in America is not for people to learn anything, it's to make them obedient, trained animals for a more efficient work force.

It's not fair." "No, it's not," I hear someone say, her footsteps barely more than a whisper against the floor. "But then again, a lot in life isn't fair." The woman is concealed in the shadows. "It's how you handle yourself in such situations and what you learn from them that will define you.

I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

Riches come and go, but no one can take away your education.

You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.

Books. Change. Lives.

thousands of books in here, shelved on four different floors. The categories

Thanks for the bargain, Theos," Megara said to the young man in the marketplace who had given her a good price on day-old bread. "It's been a real slice." Then she turned with an expertly timed flip of her lengthening red hair- it was almost to her waist now- and swung her hips as she sashayed away. As Megara grew, she was learning that her charm was a tool she could rely on.

A good director, I was learning, could take criticism.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

How can teachers teach when parents demand exceptions and cry foul every time their kid gets crossways? Sometimes we step in and advocate, but sometimes our kids are lame and need to own up. Let them feel the sting of detention, a zero, a lost privilege, a time-out. Let failure instruct them.

Can't we all simmer down a bit? Let the teachers teach, the parents parent, and the kids do the learning. Our children will be fine, just as we were. They will figure it out, just as we did. They don't need every advantage skewed their way and every discomfort fluffed with pillows. I bet they don't even need sandwich dolphins. I am a product of bologna, red Kool-Aid, and home perms, and I turned out okay.

Thank you, Caillou, for having a nonphonetic title so my son cannot look you up on Netflix.

Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.

I bet our kiddos are sturdier than we think. Maybe they don't need every gadget and advantage. Maybe kids grow like all humans do: through struggle, failure, and perseverance. They might have a gear we didn't know about and don't need to be coddled like fragile hothouse plants that can't adapt to new environments. I bet the kids will surprise us.

The best people I know are constantly learning, putting themselves humbly under the leadership of others who've gone before them. This is no indicator of weakness but rather healthy ambition. That woman is unafraid of a challenge and cares enough about her own development to ask for help and secure the outcome she wants. Learners become our most effective leaders.

We would be wise to take more of our cues from the beasts and babies. All

When it comes to having sex and making money, you're supposed to know what you're doing and be all great at it, but nobody teaches you anything about it

Nur wer aufgibt, scheitert wirklich. Alles andere dient nur dem Sammeln von Informationen.

Our subconscious mind is like a little kid who doesn't know any better and, not coincidentally, receives most of its information when we're little kids and don't know any better (because our frontal lobes, the conscious part of our brains, hasn't fully formed yet).

Don't take failure personally. Get your ego out of it and your curiosity into it. Approach failure with an attitude of Hmmm, I wonder why that happened? Was there something I could have done differently?

She went to the spiritual gym. She constantly read books by other entrepreneurs, she had pictures taped to her walls of women who'd done stuff like run successful restaurants in war zones, she memorized poems, meditated, and constantly reminded herself that uncertainty is part of the process. Everyone

She did her homework. She studied her industry, the people she'd love to work with, and learned creative ways to sell by finding common ground between herself and prospects that were "out of her league.