Quotes About Learning

Indeed, children's intrinsic motivation in school has been shown to decline every year over the course of traditional schooling.

I look at my feet. I hold back my tears, slump my shoulders, and retreat just enough to show deference. I have learned a lot from growing up with animals.

I wonder," Marcia said. "If you would consider being my apprentice?

Spit Fyre practised a recently acquired skill - he winked.

Wat ik bedoel,' zei Marcia in een poging het uit te leggen, 'is dat ik nog nooit eerder iemand heb gevonden die ook maar een sprankje Magiek had, maar jij hebt het... Wat denk je, wil je mijn Leerling worden?... Ik verzoek je om erover na te denken,' zei Marcia op zachtere toon.

Jij hebt een verbazingwekkende Magieke kracht. Dat zei ik je al eerder. Misschien geloof je me nu.' Ze glimlachte... 'Dus is je antwoord nog steeds nee?' 'Wat voor antwoord?' vroeg Jongen 412. 'Op de vraag of je mijn Leerling wilt worden. Ben je van mening veranderd door wat ik je heb verteld? Wil je mijn leerling worden? Alsjeblieft?'... Jongen 412 glimlachte. 'Ja,' zei hij. 'Ik wil graag je Leerling worden. Heel graag.

Boy 412 reading Thaumaturgy and Sortilage: Why Bother? with avid interest.

Oh, I so miss Sep, he used to tell me so much stuff about all sorts of useless things…

We go back a long way, Apprentice," he said. Septimus wasn't sure if he liked the sound of that, but the old man's smile calmed him a little.

Angus Stevenson

Everything is a learning experience.

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.

As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.

Jerry J. Mallett: From it I learned that it is never too late to have your life changed by a children's book.

Jack Pikulski: I learned... ...that children's books not only inform and entertain, but they make lasting impressions and add richness to our lives and the lives of those we love. While I am definitely into my mature years, I still read children's books; I always will.

Wendell Minor: I believe that children's books are the last pond in the Serengeti. They are the only place we go to drink for inspiration. All of us can still go - and do....