Quotes About Learning

I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

We live in a technology-driven world so I want to ensure our educational system teaches in a technology-driven way.

A pet around a small child teaches them responsibility and passion.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

Life doesn't always go according to plan, and we don't always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.

Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.