Quotes About Learning

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Summer school's a drag.

Lincoln learned self-discipline and the art of case preparation from Logan, who had served previously as a circuit judge and had taught Lincoln to see cases from every possible point of view.

learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience—to commit to memory—to come to know or be aware of. Obviously

Knowledge of a subject doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything with it. That would require skill. Likewise, a student can commit something to memory with no knowledge whatsoever. A grade-schooler, for example, might be able to recite the multiplication table perfectly, but still be unable to solve simple math problems. Coming to know something implies the goal of being able to use the knowledge, while being aware of facts or figures does not. Of

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

Lo que hago es lo que me enseña lo que estoy buscando. (Pierre Soulages, pintor abstracto francés)

El envejecimiento es un proceso orgánico bastante lamentable que apenas si tiene un par de cosas buenas (una, que, si te esfuerzas, aprendes algunas cosas; y dos, que es la mejor prueba de que no te has muerto todavía)

I'm fourteen now, and sometimes I feel I've done nothing except go to school.

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

All life, he thought as he tugged at the boulder, is a flight from mistake to mistake.

It is only in the extremes, on the margins of existence, where life is worth living, where we can learn what's possible for ourselves and for the rest of humanity. The middle of the road leads nowhere , it reveals nothing about man other than ambivalence and fear.

The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion.

If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Plants are shaped by cultivation , and men by education .

For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking - Rousseau

The denial of emotion is a terrible thing; what takes time is learning that the positive path is the education of emotion, not it's uncritical indulgence, which actually locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation. Likewise, the denial of rights is a terrible thing; and what takes time to learn is that the opposite of oppression is not a wilderness of litigation and reparation but the nurture of concrete, shared respect.