Quotes About Learning

This is the cardinal rule for grades and report cards: Parents don't get report cards—kids do.

remember, we are not sending them there to punish them; we are merely giving them the opportunity to pull themselves together.

Modeling is the secret to instilling a sense of responsibility about personal belongings.

Animals, Huss felt, could teach us a lot about how to live if we paid attention to them. She had chosen to pay attention.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

I always advise students who like to read that they should read everything form license plates on cars to signs on the highway, fiction, nonfiction, newspapers, magazines—I mean everything. You never know what you might learn or when and where you can use the information.

The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically. —Marcus Aurelius

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

Mentorship is Instrumental.

Embrace mentorship. Rely on others to assist you, provide feedback, challenge your thinking and celebrate you; this is one of the greatest growth paths for leaders.

If securing some mentors and being one yourself are not already on your leadership list of things to do, let's get at it. It's too important for your career to ignore.

For the love of God, do not be careless or tepid. For if tautness breaks the bow, idleness breaks the soul. Try to maintain a holy and discreet ardor in work and in the pursuit of learning as well as of virtue. With one as with the other, one energetic act is worth a thousand that are listless, and what a lazy man cannot accomplish in many years an energetic man usually achieves in a short time. —St. Ignatius Loyola, The Letters of St. Ignatius of Loyola, William

As author Alain de Botton notes, the problem with facts is not that we need more of them, but that we don't know what to do with the ones we have.

Apparently, they missed the second day of Chemistry 101—the day they teach 'covalent' bonds. When

I studied secondary education.

Passion is the fuel; Inspiration the fuse, and learning the catalyst

The moment learning occurs, mankind progresses

Sarah Jane, do you always have to be the teacher?" she asked and then immediately added, "I already know the answer so you don't have to answer that.