Learning Quotes

The real driver of creativity is an appetite for discovery and a passion for the work itself. When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done. Their mastery of them grows as their creative ambitions expand. You'll find evidence of this process in great teaching in every discipline from football to chemistry.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure to follow.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

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

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in school comes from his inability to utilize the experience he gets outside while on the other hand he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning in school. That is the isolation of the school--its isolation from life.

“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn.”

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The best way to retrain is to be curious.

"You can either learn by revelation or tribulation."

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

I think that having 20-20 hindsight vision gives us an incredible competitive advantage, and like many advantages, they will only serve those with the presence of mind to use them.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape;...it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

It's really the best you can do in life, is learn. You can't really do anything right. You can just learn.

You know, I believe we have two lives...the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.