Learning Quotes - Page 73

I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Learning is a process not an event.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.

Shortcuts aren't always.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.