Learning Quotes

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

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

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.