Learning Quotes - Page 28

• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• After the final no there comes a yes
  And on that yes the future world depends.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Teaching, Future

  "Harmonium". Book by Wallace Stevens, 1923.

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Teaching, Vocabulary, Inquiry

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

  John Ralston Saul

  Teaching, Risk, Individual

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• We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Determination, Believe, Teaching

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• The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Science, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.237

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• People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.

  Guy Claxton

  Strong, Teaching, Hero

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• Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

  Guy Claxton

  Teaching, Fundamentals, Literacy

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.120, A&C Black

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• Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

  Guy Claxton

  Lying, Teaching, Reading

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Education, Looks, Teaching And Education

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.162, Penguin

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• The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Mistake, Lessons

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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leadership, Patience, Simple

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• Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Experience, Unexpected

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• Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Lifetime, There Comes A Time

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• We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

  Jim Rohn

  Success, Knowledge, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2017

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• Your world is as big as you make it.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  World, Aging, Bigs

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Knowledge, Men

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• If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Dream, Blow

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 22, 2016

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

  Al Neuharth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Book, Reading, Years

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