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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Whiners usually play alone.

While we teach, we learn.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

You can't learn less.

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.