learning

The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.

We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any standards. No. We give them tools so that they can experience the joy, the passion, of creating. All we are doing is saying, __ere, if you know this, there is more you can make; there is another path you can map; there is another song you can compose._ School__rom pre-K to postdoc programs__xists so that we can all build more from within ourselves and with our colleagues.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.

So long as we learn it doesn__ matter who teaches us, does it?

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they__e workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we__e on the right track.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an __ducator,_ because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

A learned man who doesn__ restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

You have to be silent, but ready