If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the...

Only a self-taught man can teach others

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one’s sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

There are times when one shall forgive oneself. Therein lies the best possibilities of learning & improving.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

At Learning’s fountain it is sweet to drink, But ’tis a nobler privilege to think.

Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.

You will be doing your students a much greater service by reducing the amount of material that you are covering and actually ensuring that students are learning it, rather than making sure that you are...

The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.

Desire to learn.Desire to read.Desire to think.Desire to write.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you’re exhaling

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

My new favorite quote is, “Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

[Cost estimates are often difficult to come by and they are even harder to stick to.] I am learning that all numbers rise, so I think there is a good chance it will be more...

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing....

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted.

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the...

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life…Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That’s because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant...

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me–we have a hard time making ourselves part of things, of making ourselves responsible to others, and trusting others to be there for...

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Life is, Loving – Listening – Lifting – Learning – Living

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

Time is money, but money isn’t time

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.

I heard this story once,” she said, “where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin’ stuff about the universe and everythin’ from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and...

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly...

… be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness…

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.

When we harm others we harm ourselves; when we help others we help ourselves.

The effort of learning. It’s the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world — its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you...

…madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.