Quotes About Learning

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

I consider myself a student of life.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

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

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.