Learning Quotes - Page 43

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content

none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.