Quotes About Learning

So listening carefully is what I was taught all my life. When people don't listen, it's not that they don't learn, they just deny themselves tremendous opportunities and glorious choices." Steven Spielberg

on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Tauraat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Little learning is dangerous.

Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!)

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.

When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.