Learning Quotes - Page 38

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

I was determined to know beans.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.