Quotes About Learning

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Dig a little, he continues. Search. Examine. Sculpt from the inside out, and not the other way around. Don't be afraid to screw up along the way.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.

He is hunched over a spinning pot, his hands muddy red. "Welcome to the only class that will teach you how to survive," he says. "Welcome to Art.

We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track.

Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear.

No wonder the zombies were crazy. They thought they were supposed to practice breeding before they learned how to do their own laundry. They talked about it, thought about it, maybe did it, all while going through the motions of attending class and learning stuff so that they could go forth and become productive adults. Whatever that was supposed to mean.

The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.

Cutting dead frogs is cool.

We have journals in social studies, too. The school must have gotten a good price on journals.

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Another review of map skills, one week of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus in time for Columbus Day, the Pilgrims in time for Thanksgiving. Every year they say we're going to get right up to the present, but we always get stuck in the Industrial Revolution. We got to World War 1 in seventh grade - who knew there had been a war with the whole world? We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them. They need us to be brave enough to give them great books so they can learn how to grow up into the men and women we want them to be.

He says we will graduate knowing how to read and write because we'll spend a million hours learning how to read and write. Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decided this? Does algebra move you to tears? (Hands raise, thinking he wants answers.) Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!

Don't be so hard on yourself. Art is about making mistakes and learning from them.

and i wrote My Name in big letters got my first badge, a library card

You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.

Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.

One must know a great many unimportant things in order to know those few things which are important.

Give a man a fish,' he said, 'and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and for the rest of his life you can sell him rods and reels and hooks and leaders and flies and lures and God only knows what else.