Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

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

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

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

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.