Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his...

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.

That’s your opportunity–to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and...

Stop, Read, and Listen. It may not help you cross the street but it sure will help you go down the right path.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

[As a freshman Harris averaged 12.3 points and led the team in steals and blocked shots. While learning the point on the fly last season, he averaged 12.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and a...

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Life’s pressure is equal to your resistance.

Muita gente fala que é preciso aprender com o exemplo dos pais e dos professores e coisa e tal. Pode até ser! Não foi o que aconteceu comigo, mas pode ser! Só acho que estão...

I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education...

I think that there are those who write of life being a skip on the sidewalk, a chocolate bar, a bowl of cherries… the problem with that is it ends up disappointing people. Because life...

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also...

I’m living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in...

Live to learn and you’ll learn to live.from the book ‘I Know Who You Are!

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person’s soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis...

We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It’s a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn’t get down on themselves.

Coal keeps the lights on!’ And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord’s scholarship program.

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the...

For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, “Because they’re scared.” I used to suspect that children’s defeatism had something to do with their...

Life is school.Be a student for life.

The results were what we hoped they’d been. All of the players did well. This was part of the learning process. Our goal was to continue to improve every match with the intention of getting...

We live to read.

I think Kelly had a learning year and an adjustment year, not having Andre Barrett. It was an adjustment for the whole team, but I think Kelly has grown and learned from his experiences here.

You’ll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

I thought there would be a little learning curve, but they’re athletic, they’re strong, they all jump really, really well. They’re not playing like freshmen. They’re not playing like freshmen at all. They’re going to...

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

…there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most.

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

But what if I make a mistake?’ Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. ‘A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You’ll make dozens! I made four or five on my first...

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

So it is with the places preparing to teach us. It’s only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern—when it begins to realize its boundlessness—that its newly adamant pulse bangs on the...

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully youcultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquireand which you are not going to receive...