Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its task is only to run the programs.

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

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

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

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

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

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.