quotations about learning
Education is a sorting hat. Those who "do well"--who perform on tests at or above age-normed standards--are destined for one sort of future (Ravenclaw), whereas those who do not are channeled into a different track (Hufflepuff). There's no accommodation for variations in learning pace, developmental stage, or test-taking ability. What would happen if we assumed that with the right education, anyone could learn anything?
DENISE WYDRA
"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016
Live and learn.
AMERICAN PROVERB
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Last Argument of Kings
New insights from cognitive and learning science, coupled with the tremendous power of educational software, can help every learner succeed. They can also eliminate tremendous waste from the system--all those hours prodding students to pay attention and stay on task, when the task was the wrong one all along.
DENISE WYDRA
"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Major Barbara
To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.
R. DODSLEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects
Do something with what you learn.... Reading, listening and learning is pointless without doing, applying, sharing or implementing.
MAARTEN ALBARDA
"What Is Your Learning Plan?", MediaPost, May 16, 2016
The learned man has always riches within himself.
PHAEDRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
POPE PIUS II
attributed, Day's Collacon
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on Virginia
We often learn--by unlearning.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The three foundations of learning are seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.
CATHERALL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The Choice Is Yours
It is only by amusing oneself that one can learn.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
By learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
S. M. STIRLING
The Sunrise Lands
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
TOM STOPPARD
The Invention of Love
It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUS
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