I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.
Interpretation
Learning is an ongoing process; each experience offers unique insights.
This quote emphasizes the idea that every experience, particularly in games or other competitive scenarios, provides new opportunities for learning. Despite any preconceived notions of what to expect, the intrinsic variability of each game ensures that there is always something valuable to gain from participating.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about embracing challenges.
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.
I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.
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