Quotes About Learning

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

child deprived of the opportunity to discuss mistakes can't learn from them.

Children are not passive absorbers of knowledge; rather, they are active constructors of concepts

Perdí años hasta llegar a entender que la vida no se vive en borrador y después se pasa, prolija y sin faltas de ortografía, al cuaderno de clase.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek—the finding part is up to God.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins learning. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes." "But the ropes are on stack 2." "I meant metaphorically.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

A doctor is a book-loaded donkey.