Learning Quotes

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

It was not until months after going vegetarian that I started really learning about all of the health benefits.

The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store. I grew up learning to do more with less. And I have been saying, you know, Washington needs to do the same.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.