You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Interpretation
True learning occurs through listening and understanding, not just speaking.
This quote by Lyndon B. Johnson emphasizes the importance of active listening in the learning process. When individuals are focused on talking and expressing their own thoughts, they miss opportunities to absorb new information and understand different perspectives, which are crucial for genuine learning and growth.
In practice
In a classroom discussion to encourage students to listen more than they speak.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
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