Quotes About Learning

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.

Curiosity is the main energy...

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

Learning is Problem Solving and Problem Solving is Learning

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he's ready, no matter how young he is, and you can't start too young to learn how to be careful.

America's libraries are the fruits of a great democracy. They exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exists because we believe that information an knowledge are not the exclusive domain of a certain type or class of person but rather the province of all who seek to learn. A democratic society holds these institutions in high regard.

We have a choice in our response to failure. We can condemn or we can learn. All of us fail, but this doesn't mean that we are failures. We need to understand that failing can be a step toward maturity, not a permanent blot on our self-esteem...We don't have to allow failure to prevent us from being used by God.

For our benefit, God often allows us to experience circumstances that will enable us to recognize our blind adherence to Satan's deceptions. Many times these circumstances seem very negative, but through them we can learn valuable, life-changing truths.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

To know a little about a lot.