Quotes About Learning

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

Experience is a good teacher.

To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.

Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.