Quotes About Understanding

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.

Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Lead from the heart, not the head.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let go relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

The words "I love you" take two seconds to say, two hours to explain and a lifetime to prove.

"If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but… who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends – all of that.

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

And I can't help but stare, cause I see truth somewhere in your eyes."

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

"Love without reason lasts the longest."

"You have found true love when you realize that you want to wake up beside your love every morning even when you have your differences."