Quotes About Learning

I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors' lectures.

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

The chalks and slates fascinated them. They yearned to hold the white sticks in their hands, make little white squiggles like the other children, draw pictures of huts, cows, goats, and flowers. It was like magic, to make things appear out of nowhere.

Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.

French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.

Motivation is in fact the most important result of student-engaged assessment—unless students find reason and inspiration to care about learning and have hope that they can improve, excellence and high achievement will remain the domain of a select group.

The apathy, disconnection, or lack of self-esteem that causes students to disengage in school—to stop caring—is not inherent. It is learned behavior.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton never saw the creation of America as a magical leap across a chasm to an entirely new landscape, and he always thought the New World had much to learn from the Old.

It is almost inconceivable that he did not suspect at moments that Archbold had learned some of his tricks from Senior.

Whenever they met, they stayed away from money talk and spoke of educational policy.

he listened closely to what people said and filed away as much information as he could, repeating valuable information to himself until it was memorized.

Of the 155 schools, only 23 required more than a high-school education.

Big Bill's interest in medicine, conventional and otherwise, began to surface in his son and became more pronounced with time.

He was a slow learner but patient and persistent and, like J. P. Morgan and Jay Gould, exhibited a terrific head for math.

I find I already thirst for knowledge about the business.

Never a great believer in book learning, Bill probably derided a college degree as a costly indulgence at a time when people didn't equate it with enhanced income.

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self-criticism.

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

From an engineering standpoint, Pierpont knew little about railroads.

No business experience was ever wasted upon Rockefeller.

George Washington always demonstrated a capacity to learn from missteps. "Errors once discovered are more than half amended," he liked to say. "Some men will gain as much experience in the course of three or four years as some will in ten or a dozen.

At another point, they met an old man in the roadway whom John so sedulously drained of local lore that the latter finally pleaded with weary resignation, "For God's sake if you will go with me over to that barn yonder, I will start and tell you everything I ever knew."72 This was the same monotonously inquisitive young man who was known as "the Sponge" in the Oil Regions.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .