Quotes About Learning

But when you practice moving at a speed that is compatible with human nature—and you build that into your daily life—you begin to train your attention and focus. "That's why those disciplines make you smarter.

more free play they get, the more sound a foundation they will have for their focus and attention.

Standardized schooling too often drains learning of meaning, while progressive schooling tries to infuse it into everything. This is why the best research on this question shows that kids at more progressive schools are more likely to retain what they've learned in the long run, more likely to want to carry on learning, and more likely to be able to apply what they've learned to new problems. These, it seems to me, are among the most precious forms of attention.

Reading books trains us to read in a particular way—in a linear fashion, focused on one thing for a sustained period. Reading from screens, she has discovered, trains us to read in a different way—in a manic skip and jump from one thing to another.

This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead.

More speed means less comprehension.

simplest and most common forms of flow that people experience in their lives is reading a book

one professor told me that he struggled to get his students there to read even quite short books, and he increasingly offered them podcasts and YouTube clips they could watch instead. And that's Harvard.

I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It's a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.

It might look discouraging , but at every relapse, you learn something new.

to focusing carefully on one thing at a time. As I learned all this, I realized that my desire to absorb a tsunami of information without losing my ability to focus was like my desire to eat at McDonald's every day and stay trim—an impossible dream.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Learning by head, hand and heart

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.