Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Shortcuts aren't always.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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

Successful software always gets changed.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.