Learning Quotes

There is no time of life past learning something.

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Trust processes as well as people.

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Every solution has a problem.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Time is the enemy of freedom.