Quotes About Learning

Problems can only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment can only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

Every dollar you spend on training saves you two dollars on advertising.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head—by reading.

Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.

What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow.

The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying.

Penance is one way in which we willingly embrace this discipline in order to learn from it, just as a godly child may embrace his parent's discipline.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

Humans are merely just animals Which are programmed to behave Appropriately according to their age

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

Now, either you remove your hand, or you shall discover what a girl can learn from five brothers.

mavourneen. They figured most of it out long ago.