“It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.”
“You have to know you don’t know before you can know.”
“Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don t”
“Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior.”
“There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.”
“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
“For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.”
“He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn’t fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.”
“Rebel! Take responsibility for your life. Drop all that nonsense which has been put inside you. Drop all that you have been taught and start learning again from ABC. It is a hard, arduous journey.”
“I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.”
“When spring comes, I shall meet you at the Municipal Library, and you will see how much I ve learned! You ll be so proud of me and love me so! Oh, Ell, but I do love you! Right now! One can always bear more love, the Wyverary purred.”
“View every obstacle as a learning post.”
“Awareness is learning implemented.”
“I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.”
“The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.”
“the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)”
“New learning never hurt anybody.”