A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

Time doesn’t conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew...

Learning is not the same as education, and busy is not the same as productive.

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it’s not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That’s the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?”What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?”For my education, Holmes.”Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.

There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

natural” gifts. Just as you can practice lifting weights and get bigger muscles over time, you can also practice certain mental patterns that deepen and enlarge in your mind.

The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people...

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those...

Let’s not grow with our roots in the ground.

I will learn by screwing up.

If you tell somebody something, you’ve forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!

I’m not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life…

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.

I think what we’re all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining.

Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

Keep calm and keep learning.

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

I wouldn’t characterize that we’ve gotten every problem taken care of. We’ve had some learning from this we’re hitting our rhythm.

Listen when the sirens sing. How else will you learn?

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

I’ve learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

I think if you study–if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had...

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

My master wishes to see you,” said the mounted man.”When the planting’s done,” I said.”Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.””Then he should rejoice, for he’ll learn something new today.” I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did—a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.