learning

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

Do not give hope where there is none.Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better. Freedom and choice are good, but a life steeped in thinking, learning, and doing is better. It__ not enough to say, __o, do whatever you like._ To help children become skilled thinkers and learners, to help them become people who make and do, we need a life centered around those experiences. We need to show them how to accomplish the things they want to do. We need to prepare them to make the life they want.

Most importantly, I'd learned how to question and why ("when" had never been an issue: always).

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature....Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.