“It is next to impossible to learn a complex skill by observation alone. One does not learn to play the violin by watching Heifitz or the piano by observing Rubenstein.”
“I think that we should be less focused on the crisis and more focused on what we can learn from the crisis. For the biggest crisis of all is the crisis of repeating the crisis.”
“Learning in an interactive setting as opposed to a passive one is conducive to the mix of soft and academic skills we re looking to develop in our kids.”
“It s always smart to learn from your past mistakes, if you don t learn, you won t grow and you will end up loosing every time.”
“I believe that SCALM method is more than another learning method. It is a generator of new possibilities and opportunities that can open up new directions in your studies or your career.”
“In my life, I ve lived, I ve loved, I ve lost, I ve missed, I ve hurt, I ve trusted, I ve made mistakes, but most of all, I ve learned.”
“In 2007, the U.S. Department of Education published a report by six scientists and an accomplished teacher who were asked to identify learning strategies that truly have scientific backing. Spacing, testing, and using making-connections questions were on the extremely short list. All three impair performance in the short term.”
“Some people act and speak based on the limited or wrong knowledge they have. They can brag to say they are right to find they are wrong. If you know more than they do. Be kind in teaching or correcting them.”
“I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)”
“Intellect that takes away your humility isn t worth a penny.”
“I would rather lose my intellect than my humility.”
“Truth is endless and timeless, yet never is it closer to you than the times when you are naively curious.”
“Truth reveals itself to the inquisitive and runs away from the bigots and cynics”
“L italiano sembra già dentro di me e, al tempo stesso, del tutto esterno. Non sembra una lingua straniera, benché io sappia che lo è. Sembra, per quanto possa apparire strano, familiare. Riconosco qualche cosa, nonostante non capisca quasi nulla. Cosa riconosco? È bella, certo, ma non c entra la bellezza. Sembra una lingua con cui devo avere una relazione. Sembra una persona che incontro un giorno per caso, con cui sento subito un legame, un affetto. Come se la conoscessi da anni, anche se c è ancora tutto da scoprire. So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.”
“Great entrepreneurs are those who carefully tally the risk and rewards before deciding on a course of action. This is what made them great in the first place.”
“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.”
“I never lose hope, For hope is the road travelled between impossible to possible.”