“A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.”
“Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You re stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.”
“While some American education experts may say that all learning should be fun, I personally believe that the word fun is the wrong word to use. Learning should be challenging, meaningful, rigorous, engrossing, interesting, and satisfying.”
“the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it”
“Knowledge gained is as useless as pride if filed away and never applied.”
“it s always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.”
“It is never too late to take another voyage.”
“If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.”
“If you are still breathing, don not stop learning.”
“Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.”
“There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.”
“The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don’t lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another’s who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.”
“That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.”
“A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.”
“It is better to buy than burrow books.”
“Devote yourself to self education.”
“Education is the key to liberty.”