Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

Eğer Homeros’tan öğrendiğim aziz ve kıymetli bir hayat dersi varsa,o da bir canlının vaktini doldurmak için,zahmete değer projeler yaratmasının aslında ne kadar önemli olduğudur.”(pg.21 in Turkish edition)

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences....

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She’s ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it all in. She still has...

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.

It’s not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

I’ve always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me–and what I seem to learn...

We were very effective using both of those guys. I think we’re learning and growing on how we do that.

Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility...

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place...

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person...

We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word...

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Trying to mix the right shade of blue to paint the ocean sky; not quite sure how it will turn out; jumping into something new here, like a big ocean of newness.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette,...

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, “Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the...

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them.

I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall. Some will stick, and some will fall off. But if you...

We don’t want it on Tantalus where they’re learning how to drift. We don’t want it at Sandy’s. We used to race on the streets back in the 50’s and 60’s. We know what it’s...

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

Why can’t the ex-Chemist have a second chance? I get that we’re kids and he’s an adult, but you don’t learn everything before you grow up. You learn until grass grows on your grave.

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make...

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of...

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth.By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task.It’s a great deal. Just...

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

It’s just maturity. Those two players have had a great relationship, but they’re learning how to complement each other. It makes both of them better, and we want to ride that horse a while longer.

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite...

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye

Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

He’s going to be a scary player. He’s young, he’s learning – and that was a big goal for us.

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others’ teachers.

In school we learn things then take the test,In everyday life we take the test then we learn things.

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside...

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

You’ll learn. It takes time to kill the flesh, honey. It’s kind of like those candles your father used to put on Mitchell’s cake–the ones that relight when you think they’re out. You’ve got to...

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I...

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn’t been wasted,’ owned Cadfael generously, ‘if something’s been learned.

We don’t teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

Working in the hotel business I have learned a lot about people. It’s amazing what you can discover about someone by watching them when they don’t know you are watching, especially if they are asleep.