Learning Quotes - Page 46

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

Learning is finding out what you already know.