Learning Quotes - Page 36

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

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

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer