Quotes About Learning

Learning, like oxygen, is something imbibed from the atmosphere about one.

Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

Are students so intimidated by expertise that they've lost confidence in their own powers of observation?

Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

A job candidate might say, "I am not experienced in this field, but I am a very fast learner." An information systems salesperson might state, "Our set-up costs are not the lowest; however, you'll recoup them quickly due to our superior efficiencies.

As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all.

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

Only later in life did I learn that failure can be the best teacher

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Kdyby rybá? napichoval na há?ek jako návnadu n?co, co chutná jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto užívá jako návnadu to, co chutná rybám. S chlapci je to stejné. Kdybyste jim kázali o tom, co sami považujete za po- vznášející, nechytili byste je.

From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher

Only when you've had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, "rule-talk" is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

One, two, three / Buckle my shoe.

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

One of the secrets to sharing a work in progress is to know whom you are sharing it with and what you want to learn from them.

THE KING: Not the Holbein Henry, but a much younger man, clean-shaven, bright-eyed, graceful and athletic. The Golden Hope of the New Learning throughout Europe. Only the levity with which he handles his absolute power foreshadows his future corruption.

More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability? And as time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes; and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons. Robert Whittinton (1520) He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced. Jonathan Swift (1736)

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.