Quotes About Learning

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any one because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

A man must learn to recognize values.

Look, if you can't write why don't you learn to write criticism?

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

it is always a mistake to know an author

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El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found...

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

There is no friend as long as a book

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.

the man who had taught me to distrust adjectives as i would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations;

My six words of advice to writers are: Read, read, read, write, write, write.

Wisdom is the warrior's greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it. Wisdom is not the result of having learned enough; it comes when you know there is never enough learning.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.

Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, How am I doing? and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

It's not our job to be liked(teachers), I reminded her. Its our job to help them be smart(students). Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

En un momento como el actual, en el que los ojos apenas se posan un instante en un tema antes de saltar a otro más escandaloso, más llamativo, los libros han de recuperar el ritmo lento, la necesidad de transcendencia imprescindible para que la reflexión y el aprendizaje brinden un mínimo de sentido a la sociedad moderna.