“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.”
“It has been a long trip, said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn t made so many mistakes. I m afraid it s all my fault. You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
“For a human being, nothing comes naturally, said Grumman. We have to learn everything we do.”
“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can t become a master.”
“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”
“You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.”
“He who laughs most, learns best”
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
“It doesn`t hurt to get more education.”
“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it”
“Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.”
“I m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
“Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.”
“Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.”
“At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.”
“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”
“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”