Learning Quotes - Page 74

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

How we learn is what we learn.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.