Learning Quotes - Page 37

You learn from mistakes.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.