The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful...

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They’re learning from their mistakes.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go...

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth’s sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.

It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

it’s good to have things done withwhen they don’t workit’s also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you’ve failed with.

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew)...

It is the ‘Teacher’, that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn’t know was there. Learning doesn’t fill me up so much as opens me up. Shakes me loose and throws me off my habits...

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of...

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

I’m starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her ‘I don’t know how you do it,’ in order...

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can’t lead if you can’t learn!

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks

Still men be clever and in an hundred centuries or more, perchance will have found a way to journey thither; when that they have discovered and understood all things on the earth. What will a...

School is learning things you don’t want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn’t know, while working toward a future you don’t know will ever come.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we...

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

When red fights with white, pink is always the winner. Let that be a lesson in love.

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It’s a strange thing isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks...

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get...

We are all told to ignore bullies. It’s something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn’t mean you learn it. It doesn’t mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies....

Learning has no end until the day of death.

Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the...

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and...

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin’s face. ‘There are those,’ he said gently, ‘who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you...

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is...

blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it’s time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don’t have enough pioneers like this,...

The record didn’t show how much we’re improving. We’re still a young team. We’re still learning from each other.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something

(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford).Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn’t matter....

I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person...

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.