Learners Quotes - Page 3

• Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Fun, Kids

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• The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

  Eric Hoffer

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• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, States, Observers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

  Donald A. Norman

  Arbitrary, Schedules, Should

  Donald A. Norman (2007). “Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things”, p.182, Basic Books

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• . . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

  Barbara Bush

  Learning, America, Important

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• For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving, Mind

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• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Education, Teacher, May

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• The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.

  Martin Haberman

  Education, Teacher, Avid

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• When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Culture, Serious, Capacity

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• The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Best Leader

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• A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

  Steven Pinker

  Successful, Input, Conclusion

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.148, Penguin

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• I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Wise, Three

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• The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Book, Leader

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• The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Impact, Knows

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Commitment, Leader, Knowledge And Wisdom

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

  Leonard Sweet

  Kindness

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.92, Harper Collins

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• What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Achievement, Adults

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• I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, Views, Keys

  "Mulcahy traces steps of Xerox's comeback". Interview with Kevin Maney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 21, 2006.

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• ... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Political, Society

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• My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Children, Skills, Giving

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• Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

  Ben Fountain

  Way, Late, Another Way

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• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  Maggie Grace

  Insecure, Self, Way

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• The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

  Lowell Milken

  Teacher, Character, Imagination

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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