Learning Quotes - Page 31

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

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

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

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

The final mystery is oneself.