Quotes About Learning

if you memorize three hundred Tang poems, you might be able to write a little.

Fact: like a telephone booth or a pair of size 6 Sasson jeans, the teen brain can hold only so much. This is doubly true when said information does not pertain to it. That's why teenagers are the original narcissists. It's not even in one ear, out the other. Truth is, 95% of stuff never wriggles in in the first place.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

So, if you're reading this cinema book, hopefully to learn a little something about cinema, and your head is swimming from all the names you don't recognize, congratulations, you're learning something.

La edad de una persona puede determinarse por el grado de dolor que experimenta cuando entra en contacto con una idea nueva

It's amazing, the psychology of growing in your field, no matter what you do. Growth comes from mistakes. You have to cherish them, so you can learn from them. Your mistakes are your greatest gift.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Learning is like Scanderbeg?s sword, either good or bad according to him who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hand of a child.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.