Quotes About Learning

can you create a learning organization when everyone's speeding? They may complete a record number of tasks or make an awful lot of telephone calls, but learning—not likely. Learning requires time to reflect, assimilate, and practice. Even the business schools from Harvard to USC are taking this seriously by offering exercises in reflection in their course work.

It came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12

Proverbs 7:1, 3: "Treasure my commands. . . . Write them on the tablet of your heart.

From childhood you have know the Holy Scriptures. – 2 Timothy 3:15

I did learn one valuable lesson, though. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

who can draw something of value from any situation have a tendency to do better and remain healthier than those who cannot.

the five steps of the method Reading Faster 300x: 1. Preparation 2. Preview 3. Reading 4. Review 5. Memorize

read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.

the maps are a very effective tool because it uses both hemispheres of the brain thanks to colors and keywords.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Knowledge may be power, but not without the willingness, and the release from inhibiting mind-sets, to use that knowledge.

This is an important test of maturity: to seek to avoid error, to accept the consequences of error when it comes (as it surely will), and learn from it and to wipe the slate clean and start afresh, free from feelings of guilt.

How much of the total educational effort is devoted to teaching people who do not have a motivation, other than responding to compulsion, to learn what we are trying to teach them? Is there any way out of this dilemma (if you concede that it is a dilemma) other than Ivan Illich's revolutionary approach?

The grand design of education is to excite, rather than pretend to satisfy, an ardent thirst for information; and to enlarge the capacity of the mind, rather than to store it with knowledge, however useful.

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket.

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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Success is a poor teacher

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself