Learning Quotes - Page 34

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

He who laughs most, learns best.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.