Quotes About Learning

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is an art to flying ... or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.

Eroticize intelligence.

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

Douglas E. Richards

When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay,

To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.

In most jobs, one learned from one's mistakes. Unfortunately, in our job, a single mistake usually led to a swift death, and corpses were notoriously stubborn when it came to learning from bad experiences.

I know it's like drinking from a fire-hose.

My four-year-old niece has had a kids touchscreen tablet since she was old enough to drool. While I was there, I handed her a kids magazine. She had no idea what to do with it. She kept swiping the cover with her finger to try to scroll through additional pages. There was a part she wanted to see bigger, so she tried to touch it and splay out her fingertips to enlarge it.

I had taken German in high school, and I was truly horrible at it.

Knowledge is the food of the soul." —Plato

The school would have large classrooms, with up to one hundred students and four teachers in each classroom. The students would often work collaboratively, mostly in teams of three or four. And the teachers were expected to work with one another in leading the classes.

To allow for the varied learning rates of the children, the classes were combined into what were called "neighborhoods," where children of different ages would progress at their own rates. The early plans envisioned classrooms broken down into fairly narrow age ranges: kindergarten through second grade in one neighborhood, another sixth and seventh together, eighth and ninth in another, and tenth to twelfth grades together.

In addition, teachers would have to learn to deal with students who no longer sat in rows, eyes ahead and pencils at the ready. They would have to be up on the latest uses of technology and computers, because their students would not be using textbooks. Classrooms would be brimming with computers, and the teachers would have to know how to use them.