Quotes on Learning

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.