“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
“People don t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world s work, and the power to appreciate life.”
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
“Anyone who isn t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn t learning enough.”
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don t know.”
“Small minds have always lashed out at what they don t understand.”