Learners Quotes - Page 2

• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

  Plato

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

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• Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

  Andy Hargreaves, Roy Evans (1997). “Beyond educational reform: bringing teachers back in”, Open University

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• Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

  Frank Smith

  Learning, Community, Clubs

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Secret, Internet

  "Q&A: Bill Gates On Flying Cars, The Malaria Epidemic, And Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Education begins at the level of the learner.

  Aristotle

  Education, Learning, Levels

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• Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.161

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• Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

  Zig Ziglar

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• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Thinking, May

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• The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Teaching, Lectures

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• What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, Our World, Empowering

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• I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Teaching, Thinking

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• Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

  Frank Knight

  Education, Knowledge, Learning

  Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Fault Finding

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Errors, Talking

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

  Scott Hayden

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Process, Should, Involved

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• I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Teacher, Stalking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.371, Penguin

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• Have you ever studied Jesus's approach to talking with people? He didn't always fill the space with answers for them. Let's learn to do that with our fellow learners. Let's give them room to think and answer for themselves.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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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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• Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Classroom, Educator

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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