Learning Quotes - Page 5

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

The best learners are the best earners.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

We are writing the history of our time.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

Education gives light.

There so much to learn from a single book.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Learning starts with single word "WHY".

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.[From the preface to Leaves Grass]

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Introspection and observation of others are vital for the ongoing good health of our own psyche; watch, learn and tweak as required.

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.

You can renew your mind and revive spirit by reading great stories.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

Be daring to push your ideas forward.

My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.

the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

Reading leads to good conduct

Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

Dream more.Learn more.Work more.Become more.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.

Every pain is a lesson.

We are capable of learning any art.

I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.

Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.

Ultimately, having what we want is our liability. It is no one else’s. Purge the blame game. Everyone has a legitimate reason why they CAN’T get something done. It’s the will to get it done REGARDLESS.

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?