Learning Quotes
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.
Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.
Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
