It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

The primary difference I see is that unschooling is an invitation to awaken and ennoble capabilities that exist within the child. Where traditional schooling is to fill the child with facts that we, as a...

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children...

I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you’ve been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be....

At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain’t the issue, but different interest.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I’m forever the student – considered the teacher.

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing.

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!

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

Every pain is a lesson.

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge...

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their...

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be...

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.