Learning Quotes - Page 17

• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Shining, Spirit

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.153, Routledge

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  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, History

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• Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 21, 2011

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• Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

  Peter Senge

  Teaching, Able, Learning Organization

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• Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Sometimes, Make Sense

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• The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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• I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.

  Cheryl Cole

  Mistake, Thinking, Singers

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• A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Light, Diversity

  'Hansard' 11 March 1873, col. 1814

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• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Education, People, African American

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

  David Perkins

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, Advancement, Homeschooling

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspiring, Teacher, Educational

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• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Liberty, Enlightenment

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  Merle Shain

  Cancer, Adversity, Agony

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Understanding

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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• Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Teaching, Technology, Long

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• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.34, Random House

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• The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Teaching, Names

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

  Myron Tribus

  Teaching, Joy, Quality

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• To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, Care, Interest

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.130, Sheba Blake Publishing

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